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    BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idAFL...0100609?rpc=44

    A spokesman said BP would pay fees so its own website would rank higher or even top in the list of results when Internet users search on terms such as "oil spill", "volunteer" and "claims".
    The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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    Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

    This is PR, not deception.

    It's at the top, but it's in gold and clearly marked as a sponsored link.

    Not letting them do this would have a cooling effect on free speech.


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      #3
      Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

      It's good that this is what they're spending their money on while it pours out of the ocean and poisons the earth.
      Last edited by Cutter De Blanc; 06-09-2010, 06:15 PM.
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        Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

        I don't know that it would cool free speech so much as ad revenue.

        Now it's up to a forward-thinking attorney to pay Google fees to be mentioned first when people search for terms like "BP Class Action Lawsuit" & "BP punitive fines".

        Is disaster profiteering against the Google ethos?
        Last edited by Shard; 06-09-2010, 06:38 PM.
        So you're a fish out of water...
        Keep swimming.
        What else can you do?

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          #5
          Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

          CutterDeBlanc understood the point.

          To BP, paying for PR seems more important than focusing on cleaning efforts.

          If you want to know what BP has REALLY been doing with regard to impacting free speech, look no further than BP blocking access of the oil 'spill' to the media, threatening arrest for attempts of documentation, and ordering workers to sign non-disclosure agreements.

          http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/t...ll-photos.html

          http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gree...-press-freedom

          http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/03/bp-contract-media/
          The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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            #6
            Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

            I'm sure BP has more than enough money to spend on both.

            Unless the stockholders have gobbled it all down already.

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              #7
              Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

              With it's stock price dropping already, I'm sure BP is desperate to pay out its stock dividends to prevent a tailspin. I'd heard the govt was working to steer those payouts into the clean-up and mitigation efforts, but I don't know what the final result was. I think they were somewhere around $10 billion total.
              So you're a fish out of water...
              Keep swimming.
              What else can you do?

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                #8
                Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                Government isn't capable of doing **** so long as the interests of large corporations clash with the interests of everyone else.
                ...and that's why.

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                  #9
                  Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                  Really?

                  This is barely worth ranting about. BP wants to put out good PR since it has such crap ass PR right now, which won't work on most people anyway. Oh no. Sky is falling.
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                    Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                    Originally posted by Shard View Post
                    I don't know that it would cool free speech so much as ad revenue...Is disaster profiteering against the Google ethos?
                    See, this is interesting. Free speech is about being allowed to do this stuff even if you don't like it. On the other hand, I feel that corporations shouldn't ignore their beliefs just because it means money.

                    So, as Google in this case, you either betray free speech, or you betray your beliefs in being green and energy-independent (Google has never quite expressed these beliefs but I think they're implicit in the kind of culture they foster).

                    Now it's up to a forward-thinking attorney to pay Google fees to be mentioned first when people search for terms like "BP Class Action Lawsuit" & "BP punitive fines".
                    Hah! This comment, I love.

                    Originally posted by Terr
                    CutterDeBlanc understood the point.

                    To BP, paying for PR seems more important than focusing on cleaning efforts.
                    I don't think he quite understood the point of this, and I don't think you quite understand it either - I think John Mora was the one who hit the nail on the head.

                    They've got enough money for both, and BP claims that "not one cent has come out of the cleanup funds to pay for PR". I'm not quite sure I buy that, but it's a bit ignorant to categorically say they shouldn't be paying for PR when there's a cleanup job to do.

                    People are giving them a lot of (deserved) flac for what happened and how they handled it, so when they do something right, they really need people to know, because most people are wont to look away from anything they do well right now. The horns effect at its finest.

                    If you don't like what BP is doing, go buy Shell gas instead. Oh, wait, Shell murdered several African activists who were peacefully protesting Shell exploiting their homeland.

                    In the end I ironically find myself completely agreeing with what I know you would say, which is that we need to end the addiction to oil.

                    But what's scary is that I looked up the cost to power my 1-bedroom apartment in Virginia in perpetuity using Solar Panels. It would be like $55,000 before all the subsidies the government would give me, and like $90,000 before those subsidies. That's freaking insane.


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                      Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                      Originally posted by Wavelength View Post
                      I don't think he quite understood the point of this, and I don't think you quite understand it either - I think John Mora was the one who hit the nail on the head.
                      Umm, dont mean any disrespect, but how can you tell the creator of the thread he doesnt get the point of something he posted about? lol

                      Theyre opinionated views, all of the posts in this thread are opinionated, so theres not really any "point" to get.
                      Last edited by JPS; 06-09-2010, 10:41 PM.

                      Here I come Pav, like the Kool-Aid man barging into a funeral! Oh yeah!

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                        #12
                        Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                        The point of "why is BP buying google search term 'Oil Spill'".

                        In more interesting news, THE SEA IS BURNING
                        http://www.ustream.tv/pbsnewshour
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                          Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                          Alzar gets the point. Wavelength sort of gets it. Mora had it, but then lost it. Terr doesn't get the point. Cutter doesn't get the point. Shard didn't get the point in his first post but then got it in his second. JPS rarely gets the point. Denmo often gets the point but has failed to do so here. Alzar's second post talking about the point is totally missing the point.

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                            #14
                            Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                            What's the point of the point if the point has no point? Let's appoint a pointed

                            ah fug it
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                              #15
                              Re: BP buys google search term "Oil Spill"

                              It's the Internet. Ultimately, there's never a point.
                              "Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."

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