[S.O.T.T]: Google is deliberately censoring all "non-mainstream" health websites that have gained any kind of serious traction, without exception.
They're not showing information that users want to see, or respecting what they're searching for. Instead, Google is taking it on themselves to decide what health information you're allowed to see, and changing your search results from behind the scenes.
I know what you're probably thinking: this sounds like a conspiracy theory.
But that's exactly why I wrote this post. If you look at the evidence I present in this post, you'll quickly see that this is no kooky conspiracy theory - it's real, and barely even a secret.
Now, when I say "censor," I mean that Google has deliberately placed a systematic penalty on the vast majority of health sites to make sure that they don't show up on the first page of search results. SelfHacked and Examine are just two of the sites that have been caught up in Google's latest "blacklist" - but we're also far from the only ones.
You can easily see this in action for yourself. In order to find SelfHacked content on Google now, you have to add "SelfHacked" to your search term or else it won't show up.
This isn't the case if you try the same searches on Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo, where we still rank highly for many health-related search terms. (DuckDuckGo has additional benefits in that they don't track you and serve much fewer ads, by the way.)
This isn't just a change that affects service providers like us - these changes are also going to have a major effect on everyone's ability to find accurate, scientific, and useful health information online....read more>>>...