Some years ago Rand McNally's printed atlas omitted Oklahoma in its entirety. Well, the state's most famous citizen is a faith healer with a medical school.

I do understand your distrust of Google; they know that the portal to information is the most important thing and there is something in them that stinks of the left and I can't quite put my finger on it.

I have been using Ask.com (the old AskJeeves) with some success for over a year now. Deleted the google tool bar and gained a little acreage on my screen. I have not missed google and though I know I may miss a few things in a search, Ask has done OK. If I really need to know something or think I missed something I use Dogpile. (Yes, I know that Dogpile will search through google as well. Absolute ideological purity is virtually impossible...)

"Google.....stinks of the left..." ? It must be difficult to live with that degree political paranoia. Take a Xanax and relax, Theo.

Google maps now has street views of Midland and Odessa. They appear to have been taken on a sunny afternoon last Fall. Weird.

I read the google took down the map information to avoid aiding either side in the conflict. Sounds reasonable, though it also is odd to think that mighty Russian would have to pull up google to do their war planning.

How could we have missed thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, and supply vehicles massing in a relatively small area for weeks? I hope the Pentagon is not using Google. The Google images of my properties are several years old.

Really, "thousands of tanks.."? I doubt anything was missed, these borders have been heavily armed for a while now, I think the Pentagon knew something was about to happen.

There are several images overlaying Midland, from different dates, years apart. New data is added to the google database all the time. Sometimes newer images are scrapped (from google earth/maps) because of cloud cover.

"Google.....stinks of the left..." ? It must be difficult to live with that degree political paranoia. Take a Xanax and relax, Theo.

Delivered by Anonymous, who will not even favor us with a soubriquet.

As stated that was certainly a taunt. There is more here.

Anonymous 10:32AM actually argue a point?

Maybe in some bizarro "bearded Spock" world, but never here.

Google might "stink of the Left" because its ranking system goes by the number of hits each site gets. If more people in the U.S. are reading Left-leaning material, that might be a bad sign for the Right.
You are the first writer in America to express a belief that a search engine has political bias, and maybe they should name a Paranoia Prize after you: The Theocritus Award.

Anonymous 11:16, still to lazy to assume a real screen name?

You watch too much CSPAN, get out and read some. Theo isn't paranoid, and google is more than its search engine.

Their Political bias has been noted on Google numerous times. Conservative groups have had their adds and RSS feeds dropped, the later restored after google received numerous complaints. While page hits matters in their search algorithms, it is not the only factor. But it is an important one, and one should consider that pages that come up high in google searches, get a hit boost from google, in a self-sustaining. Then there are the sponsored links. Google has at times received bipartisan criticism for placing sponsored links at the top of search results without making it clear that they were there because someone paid for them to be , not because they are popular.

In the end, Google has never claimed to be non-biased, and no one should be surprised when they are.

One can almost imagine Right-Wingers pressed to the corner, swords drawn, trying to defend themselves in the last days of Republican domination. Here comes the Speaker of the House!
Here come former Generals and Ambassadors! Oh no! Here comes Google!

Still no name?

How could anyone be afraid of Nancy Pelosi, other than small children, and her democratic underlings in the house?

Google is just another big corporation, which actually makes it a favorite of Republicans. But I'm sure they do, like many, have a few liberals hiding out.