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SSGMWP wrote:Google is a very left wing fanatic in their organization. I quit using them long ago. I use Yahoo search even though they seem to lean left also.

They all do. It's like watching TV network news. About 90% of the time, you're hearing the mouthpiece of the democrat party. You either put up with it, or you stop using search engines entirely.

Jumping Frog wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:I don't believe it.

TAM, if you'd read the link you would have seen:

The service will now be known as Google Shopping and will be a purely commercial product and the transition is to be completed by Fall 2012.

I edited my original post while you were posting this one, to say "I'll believe it when I see it." I think Google stands to lose too much advertising revenue. Furthermore, I'd be surprised if that wasn't challenged in court......on what grounds, I don't know (I'm not a lawyer), but there has to be something. For instance, their policy says "We've created this policy to comply with legal regulations." What legal regulations? There are no such regulations or American Rifleman wouldn't be able to sell such advertising. So that is bull. Also, all it would take is for one other search engine that has been struggling to compete with Google to announce that they will not discriminate in their advertising policy, and they could win the business of a large number of America's gun owners away from Google.

In the end, it could happen I suppose, but I think the blowback when they initiate it would be so severe that they would regret it. It's not just people refusing to use their search engine and the lost advertising revenues that represents. Right now, I have google mail handle all my business domain emails. I pay for that service. So do many thousands of other small business customers. I would drop the service, and so would many others because Google isn't the only company that can provide that service. In fact, I can just go back to having my own mail server process my email. Think of the lost sales of Android OS phones and tablets.

maverick2076 wrote:http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2012/ ... parts.aspx

Long story short: You will no longer be able to search firearms or firearms parts in Google shopping. I won't support a business with that sort of policy, so someone recommend me a new search engine.

I'll believe it when I see it. I was searching for XDm magazines just yesterday, and I had no difficulty finding what I wanted.

PROOF (I just did this search a second ago): https://www.google.com/#q=xdm+45+compac ... 05&bih=804