{"id":51267,"date":"2015-05-26T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs-pretty-certain-not-this.html"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:28:53","slug":"what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs-pretty-certain-not-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs-pretty-certain-not-this.html","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the dinosaurs? Pretty certain not this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The zany folk at &quot;Answers in Genesis&quot; appear to have SEO-gamed the search results in both Google and Bing to jump to the top of the answer to <i>what happened to the dinosaurs<\/i> on both services. That has some people irked for completely understandable reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, if AiG&#39;s page showed up <i>somewhere<\/i> in response to that query, even in the front page, I&#39;d be okay with it. I&#39;m a big believer, with Jefferson (<a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\/jefferson-thomas\/19893\/\">http:\/\/wist.info\/jefferson-thomas\/19893\/<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\/jefferson-thomas\/2082\/\">http:\/\/wist.info\/jefferson-thomas\/2082\/<\/a>) that the best answer to Error is the Truth, not suppression. But a <i>bit<\/i> of curation amidst the algorithms might not be a bad idea in this case. Truth has an easier time of defeating Error when Error doesn&#39;t grab the spotlight for itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/google-dinosaurs\/?utm_content=buffer8383e&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3QGqWa1CGXofvVrSSPJjTh9aEYG7y0Var_vZxpR5KnznxmDP1A1kZtHjVWhH6Z5jttrhAXEUlbvsksKowRiql0FWePqeDHcdH2stkvpbC6Bkul_rNELimZnwMoEAFthP_pHQie321YZ1sKfjDjlR4WWM4Stj7qaU=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/google-dinosaurs\/?utm_content=buffer8383e&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>Everyone Please Go Tell Google That Dinosaurs Aren&rsquo;t a Ploy to Indoctrinate Children FFS (Seriously. Please.)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6CKAXpc1LM8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The zany folk at &quot;Answers in Genesis&quot; appear to have SEO-gamed the search results in both Google and Bing to jump to the top of the answer to what happened to the dinosaurs on both services. That has some people irked for completely understandable reasons. Honestly, if AiG&#39;s page showed up somewhere in response to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs-pretty-certain-not-this.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What happened to the dinosaurs? Pretty certain not this&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/bearing-false-witness-against-thomas-jefferson.html","url_meta":{"origin":51267,"position":0},"title":"Bearing false witness (against Thomas Jefferson)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Jan-12 11:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a quotations wonk (http:\/\/wist.info). 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