Funny how when I wrote that post, I had the strongest feeling you weren’t going to be a Google user. :blink:
Not any more, but I used to be.
I get along fine with as little Google in my life as possible.
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Re: Boycott,
It’s not that it’ll accomplish anything. It’s the principle of the matter, and it makes me feel good about myself.
I’ve boycotted Dominos because they fired a delivery driver that survived an attempted robbery by pulling out his ccw. And because their pizza tastes like cat piss soaked cardboard with spoiled milk poured over the top
None of this has stopped the targeted advertising I get via Gmail, which is why I use and like google utilities - good advertising adds to content in my book, and since I still get ads for places like Mile High Shooting Accessories and Southwest Ammo, I’m happy.
There was mention that the Google Shopping site was becoming a commercial site, so this is probably a liability justified thing in their minds, same way eGay inc. went about that.
I don’t have any boycott of google in my mind. To me they still offer so much more than advert for firearms. Like I said I already know where to look for the deals anyway and google shopping never was high on that list anyway. I would just like to see a more right internet power house to keep us more established in that sense.
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They ALL probably are.
NO information is secure from them anyway.
But I hear ya: what is known is known and responsibility is then required. Kinda like ALL social media (FB, …).
MAC users will have to install Glim software for Safari capability FYI.
easy day no drama.
Not quite sure what Google is trying to prevent. I don’t generally use Google, so as a test, I got on their main search page and typed in three search requests - M4Carbine (for a gun forum), Ammunition To Go (for ammo purchases) and Gun Broker (for gun purchases).
All three came back with good links to these three sites.
What are they doing that is anit-gun?
Read the OP
It is not the search results, it is the Google Shopping service we are talking about.
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I did read the OP. I guess I don’t unbderstand. Aren’t they the same thing?
The native search results are different. Google also has their own “directory” of items that merchants can upload their inventories to and Google will display those items separately from the native search results (which Google gets from crawling the site).
I believe that the Google Shopping stuff is under “Shopping Results” that shows near the top and is a separate sort of format compared to the normal results.
The upshot is that Google will no longer accept the Google Shopping uploads from the merchants for firearms related item (used to be called Froogle, btw, IIRC). You can still see them on some search terms so they seem to not have purged all items from their existing databases or their automated system is easy enough to bypass or something.
But no, Google Shopping results are not the same as the native search results.
Thanks for your help, but I still don’t understand. Doesn’t really matter - I’m not the OP, I’m not a merchant, and I don’t use Google (mainly for their big brother attitude).
I’m not exactly computer illiterate, but what you just posted went right over my head. Oh, well.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/07/06/google-relents-gun-ammo-shopping-results-are-back/
It seems that someone was pressuring Google to maybe consider a change of heart.
Not too sure about it. I just did a search and came up with nothing.
well I went to their Shopping and typed in Ammo to go it came back No matches But right below that was a link for ammo to go clicked it and straight to the site 
I think is is more organizational and technical at this point than policy. The policy has been set, but existing data in their database has not been purged as of yet, and their technical screening may not be up to snuff, yet.
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