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Antisec’s Paypal campaign is missing from Google News
DESPITE TRENDING at Twitter and winning headlines at The INQUIRER, the ongoing Antisec Operation Paypal news is not appearing at Google News.
We looked on the Technology section of Google News and found nothing, checked the business section - again nothing - and the World news section, and again, we found nothing.
It's almost as though it is being rejected from the top ranking news pages for some mysterious reason. A reason that might be so dark that we had to don our tin foil hats and fire up our black helicopter radar just to think about it.
Google and Paypal do not get on, that is well known, so its unlikely that the former is sticking up for the latter, particularly as they have fallen out over mobile payments involving at least one lawsuit, but Google and the US government do get on, we hear.
The US government, for those sleeping at the back, partly funded Google's startup through the CIA venture capital arm Inqtel, as it also did Facebook, by the way, but it does not like Anonymous and probably cares even less for Lulzsec. A combination of those two likely has it reaching for its revolver and its internet kill switch. But this is all speculation, of course.
Also up for debate in The INQUIRER's tin foil tent is whether the story just isn't that interesting. We however, and we think our readers, and we assume some people at Paypal and possibly Ebay, might disagree.
The story is definitely getting around on Twitter, which it where it all began, and according to a tweet from Anonymous, it is dominating Twitter's trending topics today.
"Nevermind #OpPayPal being 3rd highest trend in the UK, it's 2nd in the worldwide trends list!!", reads a recent tweet from the hacktivists.
At present, according to Nasdaq share price quotes, Ebay shares have fallen around 2.5 per cent since the Antisec Paypal operation began, while a tweet from the Wikileaks account puts the current damage at $933m. µ
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I prefer to think of Google as not like Apple and blocking anything they don't like on a whim. Maybe I'm naive.
However, I jdon't think that a gang of apparent amateur hackers trying to service-deny even a major Internet commercial service, and apparently being not very successful, is one of the most important things happening today. The prospect of a United States borrowing default is much more interesting, fOr one.
PayPal tells German companies to stop selling Cuban cigars - or else. LOL
http://www.golem.de/1107/85243.html
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
Stop doing business with them. Problem solved.
Simply searching for paypal on the german google news page gives results about the campaign
I'm not surprised. After the major arrests of (peripheral) LulzSec actors, it seemed to drop from the Google radar. It was like suddenly no more of this popular-support, good-guy black hat Robin-Hood nonsense.
Coupled with Google's usual disproportionate persistence in week-dead items that were never news in the first place. They hang around my Google news page, in spite of the fact that I never read them, and probably only attract a small margin of other readers also