Google censors Google censorship

Recursive censorship:

Typing climategate booker into bing four of the first five hits are about Google censoring Booker’s climategate article.

• The Booker Climategate Article – Scandal or Indexing Problem …
• Climategate: Googlegate? – Telegraph Blogs
• Of Climategate, Googlegate & When Stories Get Too Long
• Mimsy: Climategate crashes Google?

Typing climategate booker into google, none the first four hits are about Google censoring Booker’s climategate article – the same hits are all there, one of them at rank five, and they have fairly high page rank, but a markedly lower page rank than bing gives them.  Further, the rank is better for the ones most favorable to google.

This of course, reflects page rank at this instant, and will no doubt be different soon, but that is what I saw.

Despite its utterly villainous and richly deserved reputation, Microsoft, unlike Google, has an impressive record of defending freedom.  Of course, they recently came under new management, and if we are dependent on Microsoft to protect liberty, we are in trouble.