From: malQRMassimilation@gmail.com   
      
   I'm writing to ask your help once again.   
      
   Most of the source material I quote in the Digest comes from online   
   searches. For some time now, Centurylink has been able to hide   
   embarrassing or other news that the company doesn't want to show up on   
   Google searches, apparently using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)   
   techniques which crowd out all search results that appear in English   
   with those from sites which publish in other languages.   
      
   Of course, I've tried other search engines, but with dismal results:   
   neither Bing or Yahoo yield anything newsworthy on most days: if there   
   are other choices worth using, I'd like to know about them.   
      
   Now, AT&T has adopted tactics similar to Centurylink's. Today's search   
   for news about AT&T produced a "splash" page that showed reports about   
   failures in the 911 system at Baton Rouge, LA - but nothing else in   
   English.   
      
   Google searches appear to be limited to eight pages of results, at   
   least when searching in the "News" category. If part of the first   
   page, and all seven of the rest, show results written in other   
   languages, well, that effectively causes news about AT&T to vanish   
   from the screens of those whom don't read other languages - those like   
   me. Yahoo goes on for page after page, if I have the patience to wade   
   through them: after about page eight, the search results start   
   repeating the same links, straying off the topic, and getting less and   
   less usable at each page view. Bing is in-between, but it has a lot   
   more unrelated content.   
      
   Today, I was able to find an interesting article written in Spanish,   
   and the Google "Translate" feature gave a usable result for it, but   
   Google doesn't, AFAICT, have any way to limit search results to pages   
   written only in English.   
      
   If you know a way around this problem, or know where I can find one,   
   please contact me. I can't pay you, but I'll be happy to publish a   
   public "Thank you" for you or your organization.   
      
   Bill Horne   
   Moderator   
      
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