Do a Google image search for “Prophet Mohammed Cartoon“.
6 pages worth of results containing 1,110 pictures are returned as of today. NOT ONE of those pictures are actually the cartoons showing the Prophet Mohammed! Repeating the search with different spellings of Mohammed or Mohammad does not give any better results.
One can’t help but wonder if Google is suppressing the display of these images everywhere, including in the US of A! It is hard to believe that Google image search results do not show any cartoons simply because most of the media companies have chosen not to reprint/display the cartoons! There are enough websites out there (including this blog) which are carrying the images in all their funny, silly, satirical glory! Surely, the richest and most popular search engine in the world should not find it so difficult to index and display these images?
Repeating the search including omitted results barely helps. One or two cartoons seem to have sneaked in here and there.
If Google has indeed deliberately suppressed displaying the cartoons, this would be a huge blow to Google’s reliability. On the other hand, if Google has not deliberately suppressed the cartoons, this is still a big blow to Google’s reliability because its search engine is not displaying one of the hottest items in international news these days!
Anyway, we shall do for you what Google couldn’t (or wouldn’t) do!
Update on Feb 15th, 2006: I am glad to report that Google does not seem to have censored its results after all. At the time of originally publishing this post, some of the cartoons appeared in Google image search results only when repeating the search including omitted results. They did not appear in normal search. Now these same cartoons appear in the top 20 results of the normal search. End of Update.
We shall show you the holy cartoons published in The Jyllands-Posten newspaper of Denmark:
