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> Is President Santorum going to be receptive or agressive if someone from Google (or the search industry in general) turns up on their doorstep?

So Google should start manually tweaking sites supporting public figures in order to garner favors from them in case they get in a position of power?

Talk about setting a bad precedent.

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Please read the comment fully next time:

"This isn't a plea to treat all potential presidents with kid gloves, it's a plea to make sure that pranks against public figures of all kinds are squashed once they become known."

> This isn't a plea to treat all potential presidents with kid gloves, it's a plea to make sure that pranks against public figures of all kinds are squashed once they become known

You're still missing the point. It should not be up to the search engine to do that: just let the search engine reflect what the web thinks.

Why stop at pranks against public figures?

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