Google backed off from its recent push to de-nudify Blogger. It still requires an “adult” label on blogs there that post nude pictures. I’m not sure if that means partially-nude Rule 5 cheesecake, but we’re talking about a machine’s rankings here, after all.
Now Google’s machine is hunting for “truth” (read political correctness) and will be basing site rankings not on popularity as it does now but on a database they call the “Knowledge Vault.” Probably already FCC-approved.
The Vault likes Wikipedia, with which I mostly concur. No encyclopedia was ever completely without bias. But the Vault also likes government sites, with which no unpoliticized person could possibly agree. Not after years of the feds, for instance, pushing carbs and sugar into an obesity and diabetes epidemic.
So, henceforth, any federally-unapproved criticism of global warming or illegal immigration…
Nice little page ranking you have there, comrade. Be a shame to lose it.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Here’s a good example of why those government websites can’t be trusted to be truthful.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Yes, this step is definitely injecting subjective judgment (“playing God”) into the business, making Google a de-facto censorship machine. Not good.
Perhaps this will be the chance for other search engines to arise and take over Google’s market. If users discover a PC bias and don’t like it.