AppleFanboy writes, “What else could possibly explain the choice headlines seen on the Google Finance page after Apple devoured the street’s estimates and touted ‘the mother of all backlogs’ for its magical iPads. Here is a sampling of headlines from major news outlets yesterday evening when Apple reported earnings.”
• Unstoppable Apple beats Street with record $24.67 billion quarterly revenue – MacDailyNews
• IPhones Power Apple’s Growth – WSJ
• Apple crushes forecasts again, iPad backlogged – Reuters
• Instant View: Apple smashes expectations and shares rise – Reuters
• Apple Rallies as Earnings Almost Double After IPhone’s Debut With Verizon – Bloomberg
• Apple earnings nearly double, helped by iPhone – USA Today
• Apple Lifted by Verizon iPhone Deal and Updates of iPad and MacBook – NY Times
MacDailyNews Take: You might might be an Apple Fanboy if… your list of “major news outlets” is topped by MacDailyNews. 😉
AppleFanboy writes, “Okay so you get the point… So now take a look at the screenshot you get from Google Finance supposedly highlighting the most recent wide sample of headline news about the company.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JB” for the heads up.]
Totally evil.
Google has been widely known for censoring their news page, both here in America and in other countries as well. This is just plain wrong and shows you how truly evil Google has become.
Google also removes any links from their search results that say that iPhone is better than Android. Go ahead — do a Google search for iPhone vs. Android. All the top results for the first few pages all talk about Android’s superiority.
Google blocks alternative news sites from appearing in their search results as well. If it’s not mainstream corporate-spobsored news, it won’t appear in Google’s search results.
I’m calling bogus on this one. Just checking finance.google.com for AAPL stock I saw all positive news headlines. Any random sample of news articles is going to have some good and some bad. As MDN routinely says, it’s the trend that counts.
C’mon, MDN does the same thing in reverse. MDN never ever gives fair coverage of anything not Apple. Who do you think owns MDN?
Google does “evil”.
I’m reading up since yesterday so many good ( great ) financial news on AAPL beating the numbers!
Buy AAPL stocks!!!! 2011 = $422 bucks
Here’s to Google from us all:
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Google has been doing this for quite a while now. Check out their news coverage on Steve Jobs. Mostly negative ones are aggregated as “relevant”; now check the dates. Yes, Google will keep the weeks (even months) old negative news about Steve Jobs or Apple on prominence.
Google is shamelessly evil. I’d have been embarrassed to ever be associated with such a pack.
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Sorry @breeze. I didn’t see your post until I commented. I honestly had just pulled that ascii art from some text file I had left around from some time ago. I didn’t mean to copy you. Apologies.
The more fingers the merrier
Don’t like the New World Order?
Btw. that Applefanboy site is horrendously designed. Couldn’t load correctly on Firefox 4 with No Script turned off. Loaded on the Safari better, but still, it looks pretty sad. Mac.com and Me.com have some ways to go I guess.
One recent Google search I did for something related to apps turned up a head-scratching number of apparently unrelated links to articles on Android apps. Sounds like I need to use ixquick.com more often instead.
Similar, I suppose, to how for a while YouTube kept insisting that some completely unrelated YouTube ad for (insert Android flavor-of-the-month handset here) was a “related” video to whatever I was watching.
But then, what do we expect companies in advertising to do? Whatever it takes to spin things positively for themselves, and negatively for their competitors. And anyone they can dupe with their “captive” audience is just fine by them.
“Don’t be evil” – where “evil” is defined as “anything that doesn’t help Google”, apparently. 😉
I got something for Google to filter showing my feelings for Android:
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Take that!
ixquick.com is now http://startpage.com/
I recommend it!
Dave
Thanks for the link. I tried ixquick and it appears to do as advertised. Do you know who is behind it?
http://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy-qa.html
If I use Gaagle at all, I do it through scroogle.org’s “Scroogle Scraper.”
Is Gaagle “Information Retrieval” or “Information Dispersal?”
I guess there are no fans of “Brazil” on this site.
Got it. Computers are my forte’
Yea! Terry Gilliam’s work is a classic, even if a bit on the dark side.
Actually, it’s even worse than Apple Fanboy’s screenshot makes it out to be.
The current top headline on Google Finance News is:
“Why Apple Tracks You Via iPhone: It’s Not Why You Think”
Totally misleading, evil, and typical of the twats at Google.
Turning away people who use Apple, buy their stock and participate in their ecosystem who have generally higher incomes and thus purchasing habits is not a way for Google to succeed.
Well for starters if I saw “MacDailyNews” listed as a news source on a financial page I’d honestly have to question if maybe I’d be better served by getting financial information somewhere else. No offense but this place is not a source of balanced information.
Checking this morning I don’t see anything negative or non-positive listed on the financial page.
Here is what I got:
“Apple Q2 Sales, Earnings Beat Forecasts”
“US STOCKS-Futures rise, led by bullish GE, Apple earnings”
“US Stocks up after strong Apple earnings”
Oh you mean that there are no circle jerk , lets suck each other off, over the top headlines.
Yeah I don’t see any of that agreed.
… MacDailyNews suggests its prejudice up front. If this is actually an intentional choice by Google, there is no up-front warning of what sort of expectations are due. Of course, with MDN there are really only so many topics you can reasonably expect to see covered. Google covers many times that.
Well, what do you expect from an outfit run by a threesome of a creepy cheat and backstabber adult and two adult-supervision-required kiddies. No wonder GOOG keeps on tanking on earnings miss.
Years ago i got my news from Google. I never go there now.
This company has less ethics than M$
I also notice that when you goto google maps and goto Maiden NC to see the Apple data center on aerial view that the latest map stops at the entrance on Startown Rd. and shows a winter view several years old where the data center is.
Apple fanboy is dead on. I have been done with google for a while. I dropped my ads with them and use Yahoo as a search engine. The story about Apple tracking you via the iPhone and iPad was pitched on the Today show this morning. No information is released and it was only brought to the attention because two intelligent guys wrote an app to see the data. No news there, Apple has the find my phone app already. Keep up the good work Fanboy!!
Don’t expect MDN to come up in Google’s results as they filter out aggregators. 2nd, I rarely ever see stories from the WSJ, USA Today or the NYTs in the newsfeed for Apple on Google’s Finance page. Both the WSJ and the NYTs are now behind paywalls, so that may have something to do with it.
The pay walls don’t stop Yahoo Finance…
Even if you search for “apple” in google news. Most of the top headlines are either negative or android supremacy. Last time the Foxconn news was highlighted for more than six weeks. Currently some dad suing apple for in app purchase was been there for quite long…
It’s not just Google, there’s a whole anti-Apple subculture ready to do any mean thing to sabotage the company’s perception. Much of this is understandable when Apple’s products deny vast billions to so many mediocre competitors. Then for some, it’s just jealousy. For others, Apple’s brilliance makes them feel small.
Being a Nerd and Geek (and devoted and loyal member of the Church of Apple) myself, I have to add that many Apple Haters are Nerds who can not stand the idea that they are no longer supreme, know more than normal users and aren’t needed anymore to run daily tasks. That’s why they hate Apple. They don’t understand and can’t accept that computers are no longer rocket science. They hate Apple for transforming hobbyists toys (WinCrap/LinSux PCs) into appliances that just work and no longer need a screw driver and arcane knowledge.
Apple may just decided to create it own search site/engine to filter out Google and the Microsoft bias. Then throw in some mapping magic, and a YouTube version to open up quality video to the iOS devices. All connected to iOS and the desktop version Lion all linked and served to and from it own server farm(s). Then Steve probably decided to go after the education system with an e-ink iPad to debut in the future. You must educate the new population from the evil powers of today or else you have no need for a runner throwing a hammer in the the face of an evil image. Right?! Yup, it sounds good to me.
Could be a hard right hook to the glass jaw of the search giant.
Educate? How can you educate people who are sound asleep? Which is what you’d have to be in order to swallow half of the drivel and downright lies that are written each and every day in our so-called “news media”.
Google = Lying, cheating scumbags. What better disguise for an “evildoer” than to run around shouting “Don’t be evil!”?