Prometheus 6

Your Rights : Google Image Index Just Not Updated
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on Sunday November 07, @05:45PM

from the breaking-news dept.

We ran a story earlier today about the lack of Abu Ghraib photos in Google's image index. We now have a response from Google stating that the image index simply hasn't been updated recently, as well as a fairly convincing demonstration from a Slashdot reader: Rahga writes "I put together a page that counters the 'Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images' story. It is the tale of a Morgan Webb picture on images.google.com that's been driving a ton of traffic to my webserver 7 months after it was removed."

The scary part?

The Abu Ghraib story broke in April 2004 (and officially became a
non-story on November 2, 2004), so Google's index is indeed quite far
behind.