<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7fe1d242-c7af-4e82-b8ec-070e02aee25f/7B8608DD-B73D-4B66-BD20-2F94575AC8A7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2009/04/manipulating-google-ranking-for-muslim-groups.html" href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2009/04/manipulating-google-ranking-for-muslim-groups.html" style="font-size: 11px;">timesonline.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2009/04/manipulating-google-ranking-for-muslim-groups.html"><H3 class="entry-header">Manipulating Google ranking for Muslim groups</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/faith/2009/04/manipulating-google-ranking-for-muslim-groups.html"><P><EM>Bess writes:</EM> The Home Office plans to “flood the internet” with “positive” interpretations of Islam, according to this fascinating report from the <A href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/09/google_extremism_manipulation/">Register</A>. This claims that the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) is to train pro-Western Muslim groups to “manipulate their Google search ranking” online, in a bid to minimise the Muslim sites belonging to extremists. The official term? “Engine optimisation.” A spokesman for the Home office says cautiously: “ In order to support support mainstream voices, we work with local partners to help develop their communication, representational and leadership skills," he said.<BR />"This support could include media training, which can help make their voices heard more widely, and support the development of skills which allow communities to be more effective in debate."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7B8608DD-B73D-4B66-BD20-2F94575AC8A7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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