Ask HN: Why is Google purging all search results for Syrian Arab News Agency?

51 points

13 years ago

The website sana.sy of the Syrian Arab News Agency has been 'censored' or 'purged' from Google search results. Even after clicking through 10 pages of results, not a single one links to Sana.sy. Contrast with the results from DuckDuckGo and Bing where it's the top result.

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=syrian+arab+news+agency

DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=syrian+arab+news+agency

Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=syrian+arab+news+agency

This test was conducted based on a post about the Syrian War (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/09/a-short-history-of-the-war-on-syria-2006-2014.html#more) which has been posted on HN here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387286).

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