15 February, 2005

Et Tu, Google?

Jack Lewis weaves an additional thread into the already-ominous story that Michelle Malkin and Charles Johnson have been developing about Google's apparent left-leaning track record with regards to including conservative blogs in its news section:

"Could Google be using the robots.txt files to intentionally harvest data people want hidden? Not scary enough for you?... Google refused to add Conservative blogs, but has no problem adding Liberal blogs... Then it should come as no surprise that as I reported earlier today about the political contributions of Google employees. Let's add it up: Google a blatantly Liberal entity, is found to have tons of sensitive data archived on its site, and seems to be using the robots.txt files to sniff out where that sensitive information is hidden. Why would they want it, and what do they plan to do with it? The last election was pretty dirty and stuff was being dug up left and right. Could Google be building a “dirt chest” of secrets to unload during the next election?"