The internet now belongs to
liberal-left fake news
By Ron Unz: Back in early May, Google had taken the remarkable step of deranking our entire website from its system, placing our many thousands of content pages near the absolute bottom of its search results, where almost no one would ever see them. If a user included the keyword “unz” in a search string, our pages would still come up, but otherwise they would be almost totally invisible. So people specifically looking for our website could still find it, but almost no one else.Google holds a monopoly over worldwide search results with a total market share greater than 90%, functioning as a global gatekeeper to the Internet, so this harsh action had serious consequences. Our regular daily traffic by about 15% or more, especially reducing the inflow of casual new visitors who might discover our alternative media webzine in an unrelated search. The national wave of urban turmoil that broke out at the end of that same month soon overwhelmed this handicap and lifted our traffic to new heights, but the latter handicap remained. So although our daily pageviews have set new records, the number of daily visitors to our website has still remained substantially diminished.