So this is what so-called "Christianity" has come to

[ellid]

The "Christian" search engine SeekFind gives you the following results if you enter "Democratic Party" in the search box:

Warning: they are absolutely 100% serious..

This country is doomed.


UPDATE: fitzw correctly pointed out that the above works only if one doesn't put "Democratic Party" in quotation marks so it's not quite as scary as it was. Given the number of people who simply enter a term without the quotes, however, this still is not precisely a good outcome, as they say.

Comments

[knic26.livejournal.com]

This makes me want to weep.

[psyfic.livejournal.com]

Well, some of their leaders are chastising them, at least:

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/columnists/national/article_01b894b4-bb97-11df-be5f-001cc4c03286.html

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

Try entering "republican party" and see what you get.

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

If you really want articles in the databases that SeekFind uses that actually have information about the Democratic Party information, try typing "Democratic Party" (including the quotes) rather than just Democratic Party. Otherwise, you get what's called "false hits" in the search, because of the way that the search engine works: It returns articles that have the words "democratic" and "party" in them, probably by the number of times the words appear in total, but not necessarily together.

[orphandani.livejournal.com]

Entering republic party without the " " marks gets you almost as many false hits as what entering democratic party w/out the " " marks gets you. But entering republic party WITH " " marks gets zero hits! Either way, scary stuff!

[kanonole.livejournal.com]

That's because the "Republic Party" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Party) is a Brazilian political party less than 4 years old. "Republican Party" gets 9 hits, not all of which are political, and not all of which are positive. "Democratic Party" gets 7 hits, similar caveat.

Seeing that a search for "Jesus" returns almost 20,000 hits, I'd conclude that the site is almost entirely apolitical. Their search algorithm isn't very good, but that's another issue; one shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

(OK, on further investigation the site is not as apolitical as I thought. Searches for the names of prominent politicians turn up a lot more than the party searches, slanted about as you'd expect. The reasoning seems after skimming a couple articles to be on the basis of abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, creationism, and the like. So I'll amend to say that the site contains political material, but is not partisan.)

The worrisome thing about them is their mission statement, which is explicitly to exclude any sources of information that don't agree with their worldview. On the other hand, I don't think they intend for the site to be used for anything other than searches "related to Christian terms" (as they say). In any event, this is a philosophical objection, not a political one.