Wala na ang Daily Tribune sa Google News

Since March 19, 2006 pa. Check it out.

UPDATE: Filtered ba ang google news search sa PCIJ?

Here's a google news search on the word "Arroyo" using PCIJ as source.

On the word "Garci".

"Garcillano"

"Philippines"

The funny thing about the google news results was that when I used the word "garci" as a search item, lumabas ito (‘PCIJ is inciting to sedition’ — Justice Secretary Gonzalez) sa mga resulta.

But when I used "Garcillano" to search the PCIJ blog, hindi lumabas yung "PCIJ is inciting to sedition" na yan, even though the word Garcillano is in the main text of that PCIJ post, katulad nito:

Gonzalez specifically cited the three-hour recording of the allegedly wiretapped conversations of former elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. "The fact that it [the PCIJ] kept posting the matter of the Garci tapes is violative of [Republic Act] 4200 (the anti-wiretapping law)," the justice secretary said.

Bakit ganyan?

And the PCIJ have many news articles with the word "Arroyo" in it, pero bakit ito lang ang lumalabas sa google news on the word "Arroyo"?

-Sabong in the time of bird flu

-One year after her murder, no justice for ‘Erin Brockovich’

-Archive for April 2006

Erin Brokovich? Bird Flu? LMAO! Kasi IIRC, napi-pickup naman halos lahat ng posts ng PCIJ on Arroyo dati eh?

bakit "selective" na ang google news ngayon?

So ang tanong eh, is Google Philippines biased? Are they now coordinating with the Arroyo admin just like the Chinese government is closely working with Google to filter and censor pro-democracy, and other dissident news sources and websites?

OFF TOPIC: Two days nang hindi ko ma-access ang website ng Tribune, starting yesterday. I hope this is nothing serious and they weren't hacked or anything.

UPDATE: "Manila conference on freedom of expression in Asian cyberspace"

Siguro, useful na puntahan ito, very relevant kasi ang topic eh. Like this one:

Day Two will be devoted to the theme “The Battle for the Internet” featuring sessions on threats and vulnerabilities represented by technology (filtering, blocking, censorship), laws and regulations (libel and defamation, anti-terrorism and national secuirty laws) affecting the Internet in Asia;