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Report: Rick Santorum Contacted Google Over His Search Engine ‘Problem’

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Politico reports that Rick Santorum has contacted Google over the sexually explicit search results that come up when you enter his name through the website. “I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it,” Santorum said. “If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”

“To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can’t handle but I suspect that’s not true.”

The vulgar search results began showing up several years ago after sex columnist Dan Savage started a “Google bombing campaign” against the former Senator after he had made anti-gay remarks to a reporter.

A Google spokesperson responded to Santorum by advising that users who want “content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly.”

“Google’s search results are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the web. Users who want content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly,” the spokesperson said. “Once the webmaster takes the page down from the web, it will be removed from Google’s search results through our usual crawling process.”

Google’s reaction to Santorum’s conundrum was tepid compared to the response it had to a racially offensive photo search result of Michelle Obama in 2009. On that occasion, the search engine temporarily took down the image, before reversing itself, leaving the image up with an apology attached: “Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.”

Here are the current search results that appear when you do a search of Rick Santorum’s name:

(h/t Politico)

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Hahahahahahaha!!!!

  • Broadhorizons

    Ee hee hee hee hee heeee.

  • Anonymous

    I understand his dilemma…

    Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s going to change very much, apart from making new and increased Google entries for Santorum searches by Santorum.

  • Bob

    Frothy!

  • Anonymous

    *Googles Santorum*

    Oh my that’s disgusting!    

    Is Rick really apposed to states rights whenever they pass something he doesn’t like?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    Perhaps we conservatives should start creating alternate meanings for the names Larry Page and Sergey Brin.  consider what could created through the efforts of Drudge, Breitbart and others… Even Beck might enjoy participating…  What activity would brin be??? 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Santorum should be lucky that the search engine doesn’t make him out to be a loser like Obama!

  • Anonymous

    I bit the google CEO would testifyto congress….I do note that both the CEO and CFO of Solyndra have REFUSED to testify or will plead the 5th. 
     
    The things conservatives have to endure that liberals never have to because of the unbalanced and bias ways of the medai and the medium.

  • Anonymous

    Rick, all I can say about this is SCOAMF. The internet is not polite.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    TPM:

    Dan Savage literally created a new definition for the word “Santorum” and then made a website explaining it. That explanation has become accepted and — “in some
    quarters,” Sullivan said — a topic people actually go searching for when
    they enter santorum into Google.

    That basically takes the whole thing out of Google’s hands.

  • Bob

    Ricky’s such a poor widdle bigot and those mean old liberals won’t let him hate on people in peace.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    You know, Page/Brin don’t own the internet.  Never mind.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    School must be out!  F4TF is here. Fact!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    “The things conservatives have to endure that liberals never have to
    because of the unbalanced and bias ways of the medai and the medium”

    A horrible, very sad, story.  Full of loss, child-like awe, and heartbreak. 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Google basically said there was nothing they could do!! Rick is screwed!! Bummer!!  =)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    That is maybe the dumbest thing I’ve seen today.  Thanks Pablo!

  • Hugo Daun

    The internet is not polite.

    And, in the case you cite, it’s downright stupid.

  • Broadhorizons

    “I bit the google CEO”

    Well so did I and you know what? The fucker bit me right back!

  • Cecelia

    How in the world could someone claim to be for individual rights and personal freedom and then rig up a way to smear others for their “incorrect” personal opinions?

    If you have any doubts about the essentially absolutist, doctrinal, punish all dissent natures of a few so-called liberals, observe the reactions here.

  • Nature Freak

    Exactly.
    This article alone has probably been responsible for increasing the number of Google hits for spreadingsantorum.com. That’s spreadingsantorum.com.

    Santorum has a brain full of santorum.

  • Anonymous

    …He should have accepted on this occasion he’s licked!!

  • Broadhorizons

    If that’s what santorum really means, is ‘newt’ a form of feltching? (or perry, or bachmann, or huntsman, or cain?)

  • Anonymous

    It couldn’t have happened to a bigger asshat.

  • Anonymous

    You haven’t looked in a mirror yet? I don’t suppose I can blame you.

  • Anonymous

    I am embarrassed that I lived in the same state this man did when he was a senator.  At least he pretended he lived in PA but he sent his children to school in VA.  He lost in the double digets and now he wants to be president??????? 

  • Nature Freak

    New from Proctor and Gamble:

    Santorum Away™ 

    Guaranteed to remove nasty Santorum stains or your money back!

    Can be found in all major Adult Book Stores, Sex Toy Boutiques and WalMart.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    There is nothing more pathetic than conservative victim syndrome.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    There is nothing more pathetic than conservative victim syndrome.

  • Glutton

    Sorry Rick.  Just as how marriage is defined as a union between 1 man and 1 woman, the definition of a santorum is he frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.  You can’t just go around changing definitions.  Next thing you know, people will be using napkins interchangeably with paper towels.

  • Cecelia

    Oh, but there is. 

    Your use of a buzz term in lieu of an argument is not only “more pathetic”, it’s a bore.

  • Glutton

    This is what you get when you Google “Obama”

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama

    This is what you get when you Google “Santorum”

    http://spreadingsantorum.com/

    Fact: you’re a complete moron.

  • Glutton

    Tina, you sound like someone who doesn’t like that frothy fecal matter in your ass to be called “Santorum”.

  • Mosesdinoark

    If the name fits….

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Being a public figure in the internet age has its price…such as Google searches.

  • Anonymous

    Dan Savage is a sick, depraved human being:

    In 2000, Savage posed as a volunteer for Republican Gary Bauer’s presidential campaign. Savage, who had the flu, said he’d licked doorknobs, staplers, and coffee cups in the campaign’s Iowa office, and handed Bauer a slobbery pen, all in an effort to make Bauer sick. The story made a lot of people sick, and Bauer’s Iowa campaign manager got the flu around that time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    If Santorum feels comfortable denigrating Gays and Lesbians, then he shouldn’t mind being denigrated on Google.

  • Tim Tebow

    Sorry, Santorum, it’s called the market. That crazy invisible hand that you and Friedman love so much.

    Next, you’ll enlist a slew of lawyers or your GOP cronies to intervene.

    Still hate “big government” and want tort reform?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-D-Powell/659552301 Paul D. Powell

    It’s a simple correlation between Santorum’s anti-gay rhetoric and someone with an acid wit.  Santorum’s chickens have come home to roost, and the only person he has to blame is himself.

  • Anonymous

    The enlightened and those mad grownup debating skills. Why bother with anything so mundane as making your case & being an exemplary human being, when you can emulate the worst of what you say you hate so well.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    True, so if their names were to become synonymous with some very nasty practice would really be a shame.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    We all know the process of making frothy fecal matter is known as brin.

  • Anonymous

    The shitting right wing traitor deserves to be made of fun. In fact the shitting traitor deserves to be dragged off to prison where he can practice his frothing daily.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, good luck with that, rightards. You shitting cult savages don’t have the IQ needed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    The proper description of felching is to page. As in, “if you page enough you increase the volume of brin.”

  • unmutual

    The homosexuals love them some fecal matter.

  • Bob

    not as much as Republican Senator David Vitter likes to collect it in his diaper

  • http://twitter.com/aipfan aipfan

    Brilliant

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    But what happened to Santorum is a manipulation of Google search results. The purpose of Google is to give users the best and most accurate search results possible. What that piece of crap Dan Savage did was deliberately skew the search results for Santorum’s name to bring up a sex act. That’s a violation of Google’s terms of service I think.

    However, the best bet for Santorum would be to hire an SEO expert to move his website to the top of the results. 

  • Glutton

    Where is that a terms of service violation?

    http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

  • Racer1488

     Is he still in the race. Or for him the waste. And I’m a GOP

  • Guest

    i don’t get it.

  • cdnhawk

    This guy isn’t too bright. Doesn’t he realize he is making the problem worse by doing this?

  • Nature Freak

    Little chance, but I suspect Santorum would love a high level position in a Republican administration.

    The better he does, the more likely (if Republicans win) this will happen.

  • Wat No

    It’s not like they’re being inconsistent, Republicans got to have their racist photo of Michelle Obama. This, while viscerally gross, is not anywhere near as offensive as that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MS722GP56JFHFDUR7FNIR2CW3U Alan

    Rick Santorum is queer. He picked me up hitchhiking. He LOVES the froth.

  • Anonymous

    It’s pretty simple Rick.  Stop making your anti-gay rhetoric a central part of your campaign.  Stop comparing gay people to dogs, child molesters, paper towels, etc.  If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.   

    The great thing about free speech that Santorum forgets is that he can say whatever he wants….but so can his opponents.

  • Anonymous

    If you look up Ass Clown on urban dictionary you’ll be greeted by a waving ( two hands ) Barack Obama.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    Not sure what your idiotic meaningless post has to do with a Jesus Nazi unhappy about being called on his bullshit. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    or they’ll be marrying dogs.

  • Super Liquidator

    Who is Dan Savage and why is he trying to smear Santorum?

    : )

  • Glutton

    Smeared Santorum?  That sounds even more disgusting if you ask me.

  • Glutton
  • Glutton

     It doesn’t sound sick and depraved.  It sounds like a passive aggressive way of spreading germ warfare.  I did the same thing in college when I had a bitch roommate. 

  • Glutton

    Speak for yourself.  I have no clue how to create frothy fecal matter, nor do I care to learn.  

  • Glutton

    Santorum is a complete idiot for asking Google to do this.  Because of that, Google reported this to the media and it’s likely to increase the hits for sites that allude to Santorum as a frothy mixture of feces and lube that results as a byproduct of anal sex.  Good one Rick, you really know how to play the media. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    savage just handed santorum a gift on a silver platter…  he can still salvage his campaign by embracing this and owning it…  if he wasn’t such an anti-gay douchetard he could use this to become a gay icon like ru paul and neil patrick harris…  that would secure the log cabin republican vote as well…

  • Anonymous

    What a dumb thing to say.

  • Politixisadisease

    Santorum wants REGULATION?! Ithought u GOP parasites loathed any regulation. Screw u and ur family and ur religion. U should croak a horrible death……god bless!

  • Politixisadisease

    Thats just queeeer!!!

  • Politixisadisease

    U r stupid like this jesus freak. Google is pure capitalism at work that these hypocrites hate.

  • RiddleMeThis

    Rick should ask the Bachmann’s to help him pray the Google gay away.

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