In their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in the history, BP has purchased top internet search engine words so they can re-direct people away from real news on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

In their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in the history, BP has purchased top internet search engine words so they can re-direct people away from real news on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

BP spokesman Toby Odone confirmed to ABC News that the oil giant had in fact bought internet search terms. So now when someone searches the words ‘oil spill’, on the internet, the top link will re-direct them to BP’s official company website.

This would not be the first time that BP has tried to control information to protect the company’s public image.

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, BP executives quickly underestimated the size of the disastrous oil spill. Some suggest they did it to avoid costly EPA per-gallon spill fines. The less oil spilled, the lower the fines.

A month into the spill, the public learned through independent science, that the spill was in fact a million gallon a day gusher. BP got caught in their own lie when the used a syphon pipe in one of the broken riser pipes and proudly proclaimed that they were capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day. With the oil obviously still gushing, they had to up their spill rate to explain the reported discrepancy in their earlier estimates.

As the dead bodies of birds, turtles and dolphins began showing up on land, BP used a private security company as their ‘oil spill police’ to try to keep photographers and reporters away from the true death toll from their spill. Tides of black goo lapping a shore lined in corpses did not portray the company image Tony Hayward and his oil rich executives wanted.

BP can spend millions on advertising campaigns, and they can try to misdirect people on the internet. But no matter how hard BP tries or how much money they spend on public relations, they will never be able to hide the apocalypse unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. You just can’t buy or smile your way out of a multi-billion gallon oil spill disaster.

The world is watching the Gulf of Mexico from airplanes, boats and satellite images. Sending people to the BP company website when they click on the words ‘oil spill’ is not going to erase the horrors of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, nor will the trickery of British Petroleum.

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(NewsCore) - A BP spokesman confirmed that the company bought search terms related to oil spill in order to direct internet users to the company’s own information about cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico, ABC News reported Saturday.
If users type “oil spill” into search engines such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing, the sponsored link at the top of the page directs readers to a BP site with pictures, videos and news releases dedicated to providing the company’s view of the cleanup efforts.
BP may be the first to take this approach. Kevin Ryan, the CEO of California-based Motivity Marketing, told ABC that no other company struggling with public support has tried a similar internet plan.
While the idea may be considered a slick marketing and brand management move by BP, some are not satisfied with the speed BP has been working to fix the well and are taking issue with money spent on public relations campaigns.
"Our people deserve to be fully compensated for their losses," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a news release recently. "Instead of BP shelling out $50 million on an ad campaign that promises to do good work in responding to this spill, BP should just focus on actually doing a good job and spend the $50 million on assistance to our people, our industries and our communities that are suffering as a result of this ongoing spill."
The company announced on its website that it had captured 6,077 barrels of oil Friday, the first full day a containment cap was placed over the well. The cap is the latest in a series of efforts to prevent the flow of oil from the damaged well that has been leaking for more than six weeks.
(This article is provided by NewsCore, which aggregates news from around News Corporation.)

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Be careful where you click, especially if you're looking for news on the BP oil spill.



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screengrab of google search for "oil spill" shows BP
website as first link.
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BP, the very company responsible for the oil spill that is already the worst in U.S. history, has purchased several phrases on search engines such as Google and Yahoo so that the first result that shows up directs information seekers to the company's official website.
A simple Google search of "oil spill" turns up several thousand news results, but the first link, highlighted at the very top of the page, is from BP. "Learn more about how BP is helping," the link's tagline reads.
A spokesman for the company confirmed to ABC News that it had, in fact, bought these search terms to make information on the spill more accessible to the public.
"We have bought search terms on search engines like Google to make it easier for people to find out more about our efforts in the Gulf and make it easier for people to find key links to information on filing claims, reporting oil on the beach and signing up to volunteer," BP spokesman Toby Odone told ABC News.

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Companies pay for search terms all the time, usually to direct people to their sites for sales purposes. Each click can generate a lot of money, usually there is a daily cap amount and after that is reached, the search goes back to normal.

And with all the mis-information out there, the fact that BP is trying to keep people away from the garbage is not exactly a bad thing. The BP search hits do not eliminate any others, it just prioritizes the BP web site to come up first. And since anything BP posts on its web site is being monitored and recorded, I doubt it is posting anything inaccurate so basically there is no story here, other than it was pretty creative of someone to think up.

But of course the conspiracy minded lunatics will jump all over this as they run from the black helicopters.

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Poor BP, they are suffering so badly from all the nasty things people are saying about them.

You remind me of Officer Bar Brady.



Where on earth do you get this attitude ?

Oil is coming to shore all along the cost.
Millions of lives will be impacted by this oil spill.
Dead animals are washing up to shore by the hundreds.
Fishing lands will be destroyed for many years.
The spill is still not contained.
And BP is trying to hide the catastrophy behind buying internet search terms.

There spending thousand of dollars buying search terms instead of trying to
clean up the mess.

And your worried about all the bad things people are saying about BP !!!

And we are the conspiracy theory nutcases ??

The fact that you can honestly believe what you say makes my brain hurt.

Poor BP, I am so sad for them.

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Google oil spill -BP

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I don't see anything wrong on Google by BP. They haven't bought anything to the exclusion of something.

Now your scaring Rich, and that is just cruel.

Oh please... All they did is put their 2-3 websites at the top of the search, then there's plenty of other resources below it.

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Thursday I was snorkling in Dry Tortugas.
Cleanest water I have ever seen. Hard to imagine the devastation that would occur if the oil reaches the loop and travels the gulf stream.

That said, I talked to a guy from GA, who was a peanut farmer (No kidding) He commented to me that the we all have a stake in the gulf wells. Yea, BP and the other majors own them. But your planes, cars, boats, depend on that oil. Your lifestyle depends on that oil. Not from the gulf? Not from Alaska? Not from them damn ME ferners? Canada can't supply it all. He's got a point there, imo.
Blame BP? Sure. But look in the mirror.

Absolute BS... I had nothing to do with gutting the oversight and regulation of off shore drilling, except helping to vote out the party that was behind it. Also, I had nothing to do with skirting safety issues and lowest bid contracting that seems to have played a role. If you are suggesting that because I drive a car, or use energy derived from fossil fuels, that I am responsible for this fiasco, I say you are wrong. Am I to be responsible if they start drilling in ANWR as well, despite my opposition to the plan, which helps drive my votes??

The people who were looking to make the billions just a little bit bigger, by cutting corners, they are the ones responsible, and they should be the ones who pay.

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The right wing scares with it's fear mongering tactics. The left wing is completely honest. Therefore, he can't be scaring.

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That boat done sailed. You see, they now have the sophistication to penetrate that first layer of tin foil and mute the transmission equipment and inject whatever they want to say. Maybe they should try Adamantium just like what Wolverine uses.

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I haven't visited the gas station in two weeks now.

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They are corporate sociopaths, why do you blame them for trying?

Nothing will ever change so long as they continue to bribe Congressmen with their lobbyists and bag men, and Congressmen take their money.


No real reform will come until the actual corporate bigwigs are tried in Criminal courts, convicted, personally jailed with stiff custodial penalties in prison, and ALL, and I mean ALL, their personal assets are stripped away from them, and spent on restitution for their crimes.

(Let us not forget, that in a moment of sharp clarity, that Corporations have been deemed recently as actual PEOPLE in a US Supreme Court decision, and since Absolute Truth is a 5-4 US Supreme Court decision, as they are now PEOPLE, and so it should logically follow, that as such, they must be held personally accountable and responsible for these monstrous crimes..)

Not that I am holding my breath waiting for that, of course.

Thanks to the collusion of Congress and corporations, the most important and cherished value in the USA is the promotion and protection of corporate profitability, and EVERYtHING and EVERYONE is subordinate to that.

Just as the founding fathers intended.

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