Why would anyone want to suppress access to this site? Oh wait....

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:38 EST

I've been telling people for years that sott is the one site that scares the bejeebies out of the PTB... otherwise, why would they suppress us? And, out of all the alt news sites, ONLY sott?

But nobody was believing me. I got endless lectures about how fair google was, how the algorithms worked, what we should do to maximize google presence and all that.

So, we did a lot of things, made all kinds of changes. And sometimes, after a change, I would catch a sott article as a first return. But then, I would go back a couple hours later, and it was buried. I guess that oughta make us feel real "speshul," to be suppressed by hand! Kinda like how speshul we felt when the Pentagon Strike Flash went wildly viral and flushed out the "anti-conspiracy theory" debunkers in the Washington Post, Popular Mechanics and Scientific American... who talked about everything except sott even though it was said in the WaPo that this little video single-handedly got the 9-11 Truth ball out of the gutter.

At the same time, all kinds of trash - even OLD trash - with no other links to it from anywhere - defaming me and sott, will appear on the first page of google if you search for my name.

Folks, I think we can safely conclude from this that google is, indeed, bought and paid for by the "National Security State" or the CIA or whoever, and they are the main instrument of suppression on the internet.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:51 EST

As SOTT is quite the only site to look for the real new and the truth about what is happening in our world, the PTB will do everything to hide and even SOTT.

Thank you very much to the SOTT team for what you are doing and please keep on doing it. WE DO NEED YOU.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:24 EST

With all this attack on the SOTT site and the attempts to "erase" it from the search sites like Google, this tells me that SOTT team is doing something right.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:25 EST

If I search on 'Wars Pestilence and Witches' in google , it is bringing this current article of 'disappeard', but the original article is not displaying. so they seems to be doing selective censoring than the blunt filtering. Too bad.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:36 EST

I just typed "Signs of the Times" in Google (I'm in the UK, so it may not be the same for the US) and the first four results are:

Signs of the Times
Commercial, residential and letterbox signs from manufacturer supplying cast signs in polyurethane, bronze and GRP.
www. signsofthetimes. co. uk/

Signs of the Times, a monthly magazine, encourages readers to lead joyful Christian lives as they await the soon return of Jesus.
www. signstimes. com/

Signs of the Times · Politics
Signs of the Times is an independent self-financed collective that exists to provide a space for open discussion on the left. ...
www. signsofthetimes. org. uk/

Signs of the Last Days · Christianity
To many, it seems like a far-off time. But there are "signs of the times" in today's headlines - signs Jesus said would herald His return. ...
www. jeremiahproject. com /prophecy/signs. html

Yep! The first hit is for a signs manufacturer. I bet they must be getting like a million hits a day... not! Only the fifth position is for SOTT.

Now lets try with "SOTT". The results are:

Signs of the Times
Commercial, residential and letterbox signs from manufacturer supplying cast signs in polyurethane, bronze and GRP.
www. signsofthetimes. co. uk/

Under Construction!
Sign o'the Times is working on a brand new site! For the up to date information please go to our online shop. These important links are still active.
www. sott. nl/

Purchase designer fashion online with NET-A-PORTER. COM, offering a fine selection of designer clothing, designer bags and designer shoes.
www. net-a-porter. com/product/31212

SOTT What does SOTT stand for? Definition of SOTT in the list of acronyms and abbreviations provided by the Free Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
acronyms. thefreedictionary. com/ SOTT

Sons of the Thames Rowing Club was formed in Hammersmith over 100 years ago with the aim, still enshrined in its constitution, of furthering the sport of ...
www. sonsrowing. co .uk/

Sign of the Times -- A Chronicle of Decadence in the Atomic Age
Published for twelve years, SOTT truly was a "sign of the times". I don't believe that a magazine could exist today dealing with all the weirdness in ...
www. sott. com/

Yet again! I'm telling you that those sign makers must be really fashionable and making a lot of bucks, cause they STILL appear in first place, even when the term "SOTT" is NOT to be found in their page! Amazing! I wonder how they do it? Oh, btw, the 6th result is for Cassiopaea, but for the SOTT page, we only find it until position... let me see... position 22. That's right!

Now, something hilarious and annoying at the same time. Visit this pathetic site:

www. sott. com

And tell me if it wasn't created for the sole purpose of discouraging potential visitors to the real SOTT.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Google is cheating on us.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:37 EST

I hate Google... I can't think of anything else to say...

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:12 EST

Does anyone know a good alternative to google, sans the filters but with good results??? Perhaps based in a non fascist country???

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:44 EST

Spooks on board at Google: [Link]

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:50 EST

well its true.... i just tried plain signs of the times , on the google search engine.. and i finally found this .:'signs-of-the-times-org.blogspot.com':. on page 19 , the first page that comes up is sott.com , and i really find it odd it is such a weird page it is really ugly graphically speaking , and it does feel like if it was just there to misdirect google searchers , cause to an uninspected look the URL seems so similar , and another odd feature of this site i myself have been there for a couple of times just because i write sott on the address bar of the browser , hit enter without entering the .net automatically puts the .com and bum! the odd site shows , anyhow i just visited it right now and it said you are the 0000001 visitor since 10/15/96[!!] off-course it could be just very poor HTML programers but it still why is such a bad site being put as the number 1 priority in google , isnt that weird? , in any event , truly an effort to make Sott.net not visible is being made by google cause if you try yahoo search sott.net is the second URL that comes up...so this shouldn't be a posibility anymore is a fact google or it's owners don't like SOTT.....

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:09 EST

Doing a search for a photo of someone just today, I came across a link to an article very critical (and filled with half-truths and outright lies) of SOTT. The funny thing is, while my search was "conspiracy theory" related, I didn't see my search term actually showing up in the article. Interesting how an article critical of SOTT will show up in an image search on Google but an article from SOTT won't.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:15 EST

....When you talk about SOTT and they asked you why they have not heard of SOTT and you tell them its suppressed by GOOGLE they laugh at you and tell you you are one of those truth theorists.
Sheep that are hypnotized to think they are humans....

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:39 EST

I wouldn't be surprised that Google would do this. They did block things for the Chinese government after all.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:47 EST

If nothing else proves that sott.net is putting the truth out there for all who want to see, this does. The fact that google is doing all in its power to suppress sott.net shows that it is bought and paid for by the PTB.

Way to go sott. Keep the truth coming. Scare the beejeezus outa them thar sidewinders.

Added: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:46 EST

yahoo brings sott, sings of the times on the first page, as first or second result.
Checking out articles is also positive

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:46 EST

I would suggest doing some search engine optimization (SEO) on the signs website to get the rankings up. Some tweaking might actually take you down a different path in the indexing algorithm.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:55 EST

Anyone who has any real, valid, direct and objective views about reality will be called a conspiracy theorist. They (google..) do all they can to suppress objectivity. For the average person who recieves a kind of pitter pat pattern with how they are discerning reality, the pitter pat pattern is there to reduce their stirring in their slumber and puts them back to sleep.

What I mean is is that a person might get a glimpse of reality do a quick search and take in one, maybe two links and most often comes away with something that explains away the reality (truth) they felt they were observing/discerning. Like the intro in some of the podcasts:

"..there is a website to vector your thinking and attention and gets you thinking in ways they want you to think.." (not exact quote) [Link]Audio of the above quote.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:44 EST

I did a search on google.be and the Sott website appears in fifth position.
The second position is The Quantum Future Group Sites Master Index.
The other articles don't come up in the first page but this one does.
So the filtering seems pretty localized osit.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:12 EST

I had already searched for original articles published on SotT and couldn't find them… only non-related sites who had copied the article from SotT
That's edifying.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:40 EST

This happened yesterday. I was referring a friend to the article and couldn't find it! Google it yourself: The bin laden option and the missing minot nuke. It's been reprinted over ten times that I know of and only one citation comes up and it's not SOTT! Martha Rose Crow

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:41 EST

It's soooo much easier when they're in control of the "alternative" news site. How annoying it must be for them that SOTT is the real deal.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:04 EST

That is truly bad news when the only source of real information is deliberately blocked. The PTB sure are worried that the general public might get wind of some inconvenient facts and wake up to reality.
Keep on going SOTT, your site is a beacon of truth in an ocean of lies!

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:36 EST

More and more people are becoming concerned about the power of google:
[Link]

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:03 EST

Can you imagine what the next step may look like? Complete block of access to sott.net ???

I agree, sott.net must be doing something right!

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:35 EST

Today I did a search on Google using search terms:- 'credit card debt sott UK'

At 10th position it pulled up this line from ATS :-
'We noticed you arrived on _AboveTopSecret.com searching for "credit card debt sott uk."
You might find additional content on those search terms at this site search link....sending the searcher to one of their links. Very Strange.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:22 EST

I typed Thirty years of Cults and Comets and later Signs economic commentary for 28 January 2008 and both were at the top of the first page. I also typed the title of this article again at the top of the first page. I did not use apostrophs. I am searching from Turkiye - does that make a difference, I don't know.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:11 EST

If this isn't deliberate, is SOTT doing anything to "raise" it's rankings artificially? If so, this would cause the Google algorithm to reduce or remove the site from results. If not, maybe there is another page setup that is deliberately using the Google algorithm against SOTT! (Again, of course, if it isn't deliberate!)

Has SOTT contacted Google and made an inquiry as to why it isn't showing up in the search results? I would love to hear what they have to say about it.

Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:12 EST

This won't fix anything, but you can sign-up for Google's "Webmaster Tools" at [Link] It will provide you with access to see what Google knows about your site, including link counts, search clicks and rankings. It can be quite informative.

Added: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:26 EST

I've done my own check on this and its true! Google
is using selective recognition on those articles that
does not fit some agenda it has. And it does all it can to redirect away from direct links to SOTT!

Conclusion:

SOTT is HIGH SIGNAL.
Google wants high noise with low signal.
Google wants to attenuate the signal and accentuate the noise.

I found this on 'signal to noise' ratio:

“If Vs (Signal) is less than Vn (noise), then S/N is negative. In this type of situation, reliable communication is generally not possible…”

“The S/N ratio can be increased by providing the source with a higher level of signal output power if necessary.”

Added: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:39 EST