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al Gore, Google, Internet

Rush Limbaugh's algor

By Judi McLeod

Monday, October 9, 2006

Radio giant Rush Limbaugh was right on the mark when he nicknamed albert Gore Jr., the former sky-is-falling Vice President of the United States, "algor".

With the nickname, I always thought the humourous Limbaugh was making a kind of play on the word `algae', which would certainly remind many of us of Gore.

That was until I ran across the term "Google's ranking algorithm" when reading stories such as What Happened to my Site on Google? on the Internet.

People sometimes poke fun at algor because, in addition to taking on the quest of saving the world from Global Warming, he's also loudly hinted that he's the guy who discovered the Internet.

But algor and his mother never wore army boots and he must know for sure as polar caps are melting that it was the US army that invented the Internet when they weren't being war mongers.

according to his big fans at apple.com, however, "as a member of the U.S. Congress 25 years ago, he popularized the term "Information Superhighway", and was instrumental in fighting for federal funds to assist in building what later became the Internet."

(I always wondered where Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament Dennis Mills, from whom I first heard the term "Information Superhigway‚" was getting his info.)

Thanks to Bill Gates and company, we also know that algor didn't stop there. No. "He has remained an active leader in technology--launching a public/private effort to wire every classroom and library in america to the Internet."

That puts the "used to be next president of the United States‚" right up there with Teresa Heinz who wired the UN and Fidel Castro's Cuba to the Internet.

algor is a guy who dares to think big when it comes to reinventing himself. In fact, rather than getting crucified on public television, Material Girl Madonna could take a few lessons from him.

according to www.wired.com, this is how algor reinvented himself on the way to becoming the world's top neo-green entrepreneur‚... "al Gore's redemption begins aboard a sailboat in the Ionian Sea. There, in waters once traveled by Odysseus during his long journey home after the Trojan War, al and Tipper retreated during the summer of 2001 to recover from their ordeal. In the months immediately following his searing loss, Gore had kept himself busy, teaching at several universities and working with Tipper on a book about the american family. The couple abandoned Washington and moved back to Nashville, Tennessee, where they had lived as newlyweds and where their older daughter, Karenna, was born. There they reconnected with old friends, who had nothing to do with politics. "It was very healing," Tipper says. "We renewed ourselves." Though he still hadn't decided whether he would run for president in 2004, Gore felt it was "time to recede" from the public stage, she says, to spare himself--and the polarized public--an endless rehashing of the country's civic trauma"

But al, who came back with his film, an Inconvenient Truth, didn't stay out of the public limelight for overly long.

In august of 2005, with Joel Hyatt he launched Current, the First National Television Network created for, by and with an 18-34-year-old audience, and Google Zeitgeist Data was used to produce the news feature `Google Current'.

Gore says of his partnership with Google: "The Internet opened a floodgate for young people whose passions are finally being heard, but TV hasn't followed suit. Young adults have a powerful voice, but you can't hear that voice on television...yet‚" said Gore, who serves as the network's chairman of the board. "We intend to change that with Current, giving those who crave the empowerment of the Web the same opportunity for expression on television. We want to transform the television medium itself, giving a national platform to those who are hungry to help create the TV they want to watch."

Not only is algor a director of apple, making the largest organization in the world his first private sector board to serve on, he's a senior advisor to Google Inc.

So, if you're one of those small conservative sites lately left behind by traffic driving-Google, don't blame Google's latest ranking algorithm, blame al Gore.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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