By Anon
Because Google promotes American corporations, Europe is very angry.
Germany’s politicians have turned against Google.
German media groups and telecoms are among Google’s critics.
The EU’s digital commissioner, Germany’s Günther Oettinger (above) has raised the idea of forcing Google’s search results to be neutral.
Google has acquired over 160 companies.
Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM
Bell Pottinger is a major ‘lobbying’ company.
According to The Independent (PM 6 Dec 2011), executives at Bell Pottinger have been taped:
* Suggesting that the company can manipulate Google results to “drown” out negative coverage of human rights violations and child labour;
* Revealing that Bell Pottinger has a team which “sorts” negative Wikipedia coverage of clients.
“These would contain positive content and popular key words that would rank highly in Google searches.”
Bell Pottinger “enables government videos and articles to move to the top of internet searches, while less favourable stories can move down the rankings.
“The ambition obviously is to drown that negative content and make sure that you have positive content out there online.”
Bell Pottinger provides “past examples of its work, included manipulating Google rankings for an East African money transfer company called Dahabshiil.”
References to a former Dahabshill employee, linked to al Qaeda, “disappeared from the first 10 pages of a Google search for the company.”