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When I do a search for Polygraph I get the results from Wikipedia, Vox, APA (http://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph.aspx http://www.apa.org/research/actio

by dewey 8y ago

When I do a search for Polygraph I get the results from Wikipedia, Vox, APA (http://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph.aspx http://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph.aspx), NYTimes on the first page. They are mostly critical articles about lie detectors and they all look more like something I'd want to read than AntiPolygraph.org that looks more like a conspiracy blog than well-researched information. I'd say the problem lies somewhere else, not by google censoring your content intentionally.

pietroglyph 8y ago
See [0]; this is a well researched book with a significant amount of actual evidence about the (non) validity of polygraphy, not a conspiracy theory. [0]: https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf
pessimizer 8y ago
> looks more like a conspiracy blog than well-researched information. Are you basing this on how truthy the web design looks, or some aspect of the content?
- dewey 8y ago
  This was purely my first—and very subjective—impression after opening the site. I was reading through the blog since this was posted and I'd say the content is interesting and is far from a conspiracy theory.
djsumdog 8y ago
Once upon a time, that layout was pretty standard on the web. I feel like there is not a penalty for older sites that don't have the resources to update and move from the 90s/00s. And something is lost there. Now all our sites are bloated with a shit-ton of Javascript. I turn Javascript off by default and are surprised by how many blank pages I get. (If it's a news site, I use archive.is instead of enabling it). Square Space sites don't load most images without Javascript.
ap_org 8y ago
I appreciate how the present blog post may strike some as conspiracy-minded. Especially those not familiar with the history of Operation Lie Busters, a U.S. criminal investigation that targeted the proprietors of websites that provided information to the public about how to pass or beat a polygraph test. As you'll see in this recent post announcing the leak of the U.S. government's polygraph school's documentation about polygraph countermeasures, the federal polygraph community considers AntiPolygraph.org to be a major threat, and it features front and center in their training: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2018/06/09/ncca-polygraph-countermeasure-course-files-leaked/ https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2018/06/09/ncca-polygraph-cou... None of this necessarily entails any state influence in Google's action to delist AntiPolygraph.org on certain key search terms. It is true that our web design is dated. But this doesn't seem to account for the site being completely delisted from Google on such searches as "polygraph" and "lie detector." I am not familiar with any other instances of such partial delisting by Google. Are you? If so, what were the causes for that?
- SyneRyder 8y ago
  > I am not familiar with any other instances of such partial delisting by Google. Are you? I've been experiencing partial delisting on my own website over the last 3 months. Google Search Console [1] shows they now exclude 25% of my website from the index. Search Console lists those pages as "Crawled - currently not indexed". Mine is also an old site (nearly 20 years old), but it already used CSS & XHTML, and I'd been updating it to HTML 5, mobile friendly & responsive design & implemented HTTPS. I hadn't been adding new pages / content, though. When did your Google traffic start declining? My Google traffic started taking a hit around March 9, and there was apparently a "Core Algorithm Update" on March 7: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-confirms-core-update-25390.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-confirms-core-update-253... [1] https://search.google.com/search-console https://search.google.com/search-console
  - ap_org 8y ago
    It has been a few years now that AntiPolygraph.org's Google ranking on the search term "polygraph" would vary between the first, second, and third page of results. We noticed the complete delisting on "polygraph" early this year. As observed in the United States and several other countries, a Google search on "polygraph" will return no results at all from AntiPolygraph.org, whether or the 1st page or the 30th.

by dewey 8y ago

pietroglyph 8y ago

See [0]; this is a well researched book with a significant amount of actual evidence about the (non) validity of polygraphy, not a conspiracy theory. [0]: https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf https://antipolygraph.org/lie-behind-the-lie-detector.pdf

pessimizer 8y ago

> looks more like a conspiracy blog than well-researched information. Are you basing this on how truthy the web design looks, or some aspect of the content?

dewey 8y ago
This was purely my first—and very subjective—impression after opening the site. I was reading through the blog since this was posted and I'd say the content is interesting and is far from a conspiracy theory.

djsumdog 8y ago

Once upon a time, that layout was pretty standard on the web. I feel like there is not a penalty for older sites that don't have the resources to update and move from the 90s/00s. And something is lost there. Now all our sites are bloated with a shit-ton of Javascript. I turn Javascript off by default and are surprised by how many blank pages I get. (If it's a news site, I use archive.is instead of enabling it). Square Space sites don't load most images without Javascript.

ap_org 8y ago

I appreciate how the present blog post may strike some as conspiracy-minded. Especially those not familiar with the history of Operation Lie Busters, a U.S. criminal investigation that targeted the proprietors of websites that provided information to the public about how to pass or beat a polygraph test. As you'll see in this recent post announcing the leak of the U.S. government's polygraph school's documentation about polygraph countermeasures, the federal polygraph community considers AntiPolygraph.org to be a major threat, and it features front and center in their training: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2018/06/09/ncca-polygraph-countermeasure-course-files-leaked/ https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2018/06/09/ncca-polygraph-cou... None of this necessarily entails any state influence in Google's action to delist AntiPolygraph.org on certain key search terms. It is true that our web design is dated. But this doesn't seem to account for the site being completely delisted from Google on such searches as "polygraph" and "lie detector." I am not familiar with any other instances of such partial delisting by Google. Are you? If so, what were the causes for that?

SyneRyder 8y ago
> I am not familiar with any other instances of such partial delisting by Google. Are you? I've been experiencing partial delisting on my own website over the last 3 months. Google Search Console [1] shows they now exclude 25% of my website from the index. Search Console lists those pages as "Crawled - currently not indexed". Mine is also an old site (nearly 20 years old), but it already used CSS & XHTML, and I'd been updating it to HTML 5, mobile friendly & responsive design & implemented HTTPS. I hadn't been adding new pages / content, though. When did your Google traffic start declining? My Google traffic started taking a hit around March 9, and there was apparently a "Core Algorithm Update" on March 7: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-confirms-core-update-25390.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-confirms-core-update-253... [1] https://search.google.com/search-console https://search.google.com/search-console
- ap_org 8y ago
  It has been a few years now that AntiPolygraph.org's Google ranking on the search term "polygraph" would vary between the first, second, and third page of results. We noticed the complete delisting on "polygraph" early this year. As observed in the United States and several other countries, a Google search on "polygraph" will return no results at all from AntiPolygraph.org, whether or the 1st page or the 30th.