Gordon Brown wants to 'game' Google searches?

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Manipulating Google searches as counter-terrorism tool

Published 9 April 2009

The U.K. government will train pro-West Islamic groups to game Google
searches in order to fight the influence of radicals; search engine
optimization techniques will make moderate Islamic groups come up first in
Google searches

Whitehall officials will train pro-West Islamic groups to manipulate their
Google search ranking in an attempt to drown out extremist voices online,
sources told the Register. The policy is being developed despite recent
warnings from a group of international experts on radicalization that such
strategies are likely to be "largely ineffectual."

Chris Williams writes that the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism
(OSCT), a 200-strong Home Office unit created 18 months ago, has said in
meetings it wants to "flood the Internet" with "positive" interpretations
of Islam. It plans to train government-approved groups in search engine
optimization techniques, which it is hoped will boost their profile online
and battle radicalization. Organizations such as Quilliam, which describes
itself as "the world's first counter-extremism think tank" and is jointly
led by former radical Ed Husain, have been identified as potential
beneficiaries of the work. A spokesman for the group declined to comment.

Officials are currently understood to be in the early stages of the program.
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