rant 0003
so what happens when a non-leftist posts on a google site? were i a well-known blogger, i suspect that my posts would either vanish into the ether, or the blog would be taken down, given that they use the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) as a reference for their search rankers. google folks are not stupid, however, so i'm betting that if they have anything to say about the ranking of this blog in their search results, it will come out somewhere near the end of the search results, regardless of the specificity of the search. google uses very sophisticated databases and algorithms to rank search results, and from what i understand, it's an AI sort of thing. folks everywhere are always trying to use SEO to ensure that *their* pages rank high in search returns, so google learned long ago that it was a Good Idea to fight these attempts if they wanted the public to trust the lists of links they return. an AI ranker would need training, or at least some feedback on what is a