The other day I hit a deadend on a perfectly normal phrase. It was a strange feeling to reach the blank white page of the “Great Barrier”.

In one of the most memorable of the “Great Barrier” episodes, “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” the Enterprise becomes lost inside the barrier and is saved by the incredible navigational skills of an alien passenger.

I am just along for the ride. LOL

That is not the point of this post. The point is if I say I want (Lincoln+Train+Ride+Inauguration) why should they “think” that I should also read about Obama?

They don’t. Google’s algorithms are set up to give you all the terms in your search string and to present the pages by ranking, so you will get the pages that have all your terms that also have been served to the most people. Because there were many pages at the time that contained your search terms and also the term Obama, and those pages must’ve been ranked high as well, those pages appeared first. Using the minus sign tells the server to pass over documents that contain that search term.

But I felt compelled to respond.

The grist of your article is connected to so many aspects of our ability to fathom the nature of our surroundings and the validity of information presented as fact.

You’re right. Some of it is human-computer interface limitation; some of it is limitations inherent in a language; some of it is human intellectual limitations. And, on top of all this, how governments with the aid of technology and media companies and a fanatical few can abuse these limitations to their own nefarious purposes.

Lets say you were looking up the use of deception in warfare by Muslims in the past you could use terms like:

“deception Islamic undermine”

that will get you a bunch of results with Obama in them.. so to avoid getting anything with Obama , what you do is put Obama in the search text with a dash before his name Like this:

“deception Islamic undermine -Obama”

Google, the COMPANY has become a major disappointment as they have been polluting any concept of a Free Internet. Maybe Eric got this idea to use his company and it’s capabilities to become Pravda of the online when China starting making it’s demands. But it really doesn’t matter when they decided, the point is they HAVE done it and have now ruined their company and the idea of free internet with their control and messaging.

Google (Guidance On Obama Government Limiting Enlightmeant)