Google is now censoring firearms-relating shopping results.

[daddymikey1975]

Products and offers that match your query. Google is compensated by some of these merchants. Payment is one of several factors used to rank these results

Thought I'd share.. I did a search for Blackhawk serpa and a bunch of holsters showed up.

 

[pudly]

Possible replacement for Google shopping for gun-relate items: gunspec.com.
Frankly, I've never used Google shopping or Gunspec, but you might want to check them out.

 

[Tombs]

Noticed this too, looking for 870 stocks.

The Firearm Blog » Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

Time to start email campaigns.

More like time to put some boots on the ground and make google aware of the fact they're murdering about every small/private business involving the hobby or having anything relating to it.

As if they'll care what you email them. I guess that's just the easy option for people, push a few buttons on a machine(including voting) and forget about the assault on your civil liberties by an organization tied to the federal government. It's the lack of action by the people that's putting us in the situation we're in now.

 

[shooter651]

Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

I just saw this and while I believe private companies should be able to set their own policies, it doesn't mean I have to agree with them. I am electing to stop using google services based on their recent decision to censor and not support our Constitutional Rights.

Prison Planet.com » Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

 

[dhnorris]

works for me. hoax


http://www.google.com/search?q=5.56....,cf.osb&fp=b074b8949114d66a&biw=1280&bih=488

 

[shooter651]

Affiliates, cataloged drop-shipping programs, and multi-level marketing

The promotion of affiliate or pay-per-click links, products sold through a commission-based relationship, or sites that bulk list products fulfilled through drop-ship consolidators is not allowed. This includes item pages that are made up almost entirely of advertisements, or pages where advertisements obstruct the view of the submitted product. The promotion of multi-level marketing (MLM) business products is also not permitted, such as businesses that recruit members and offer them rewards for recruiting others and/or selling services
Services

Services are not allowed on Google Shopping.
Examples of listings disallowed:

• Event tickets
• Subscriptions, such as magazine subscriptions or any kind of service subscription.
• Online courses

Other prohibited categories

The following products are not allowed on Google Shopping:

• Vehicles
• Guns, ammunition and knives
• Tobacco and cigarettes
• Traffic devices (Learn more)
• Products related to casino and gambling
• Products or digital goods that require additional software installation in order to be purchased.
• Products bundled with service plans. (Note: The only products that are allowed to be submitted with a service plan are mobile devices.)

Google shopping results for 5.56 gives me 1 results for cheaper than dirt. Bings comes back with considerably more! tried Smith&Wesson google didn't give me any results bing does. ???

 

[dhnorris]

http://www.google.com/search?q=ammo....,cf.osb&fp=b074b8949114d66a&biw=1280&bih=488


everything else comes back censored you are correct and i apologize. It's going to cost them money.

 

[yxc301]

I thought that is what Google didn"t like about the Chinese government.

 

[BE Mike]

I call bs on this. I just googled for an M-3 Greasegun for sale. It gave me a few websites and I found one for sale, but it said to contact them for a price. I guess if I have to ask, I can't afford it.

 

[VikingWarlord]

It won't cost Google anything at all. They already have all the money.

Why isn't anyone complaining about the other things they're not permitting to show in the Shopping feed? I'm also still not having any trouble seeing everything in Chrome.

 

[Classic]

I was looking around yesterday and noticed this but just assumed I was seeing some kind of glitch and went on to other errands. I'm done with them.

 

[Hammerhead]

The "hammerhead" in the comments on that article in the OP ISN'T me.

 

[Bunnykid68]

DUPE

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...oring_firearms_relating_shopping_results.html

 

[gvsugod]

Doesnt work for me on my work computer, personal laptop, work phone, or personal phone. Well I am done with google. How can I contact them to share my hatred for their ignorant decision?

 

[warhawk77]

I has stopped working for me also so updating my post on Friday. I'm done with them, I removed google from everything I can. From what I understand they make money off of te ads and they can say we have XXX,XXX hits a hour so the charge more for ads well I will be putting my 30-40 hits a day on yahoo or bing. (google was my home page)

 

[Hoosier8]

Interesting. I had a problem many have had with Google set to Spanish on it's own. Type in 1911 and you get thousands of results. I changed it back to English and get no results.

 

[sepe]

It won't cost Google anything at all. They already have all the money.

Why isn't anyone complaining about the other things they're not permitting to show in the Shopping feed? I'm also still not having any trouble seeing everything in Chrome.

Tell me about it. I was planning on buying a car and some tobacco off of Google Shopping. This plain sucks.



PS. I never once used Google Shopping for anything firearms related. I'm not going to pretend I'm having some sort of butthurt reaction because IT ISN'T ONLY FIREARMS BEING RESTRICTED. You can still find EVERYTHING outside of Google Shopping. If you want to use some other browsers that have fewer results while doing a search, go ahead. If Google enforcing a policy regarding several types of products bugs you so much you take your money elsewhere (even though you haven't been paying Google anything to use their services), go ahead.

 

[Bushido Devil Dog]

http://www.google.com/search?q=ammo....,cf.osb&fp=b074b8949114d66a&biw=1280&bih=488


everything else comes back censored you are correct and i apologize. It's going to cost them money.

It works fine for me... Clicking the link gives me a page showing Magpul foregrips and magazines and carbine stocks...no problem!