Rick Santorum

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has decided to do something about his problem with Google, apparently with the company to remove the dirt with the results for his name.

Just type his name in the browser search and you'll see why. Instead of campaign sites and pages of Wikipedia, both Top Results for "Santorum" link to errors, gender definitions of the old name of Pennsylvania senator, which was distributed by rights activist gay columnist Dan Savage and joker.

In response to comments by a former senator in 2003, identified with gay sexuality and polygamy and incest, Savage has launched an online contest to redefine the word "Santorum". The winning result is not approved for children, to say the least, and Santorum, 53, is tired of "dirt" as he calls it. White House hopes reported asked Google to filter the unflattering results, which are high on the list for over six years.

"I doubt that there was something similar on Joe Biden, will get rid of it," he told Politico. "If you're a responsible business, do not give that kind of place that affect the business." Hope of the White House said that "it allows the activity of dirt that purveyed through their website or their system is one thing that they say can not handle, but I suspect that's not true."

The campaign has yet to return a request for comment.

Google Answer: Do not blame the messenger, blame the webmaster.

"Google search results are a reflection of the contents and information are available on the Web," Gabriel Stricker, a spokesman for the company said in a statement. "People who want to remove the content from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly.

"When the page is webmaster of the Internet, it will be removed from Google search results through our normal review process."

Stricker said Google "does not delete the content from our search results, except in very limited cases, such as illegal and violations of our webmaster guidelines."

While Santorum criticized both wild and Google several times to research results, he also used the issue to raise donations for the campaign.

"Savage and his perverse sense of humor is why my kids do not Google the name of the father," Santorum wrote in a letter in July to support the campaign, according to the Statesman. "That's why I need your support today, and your share of $ 25, $ 50, $ 100 or $ 250 campaign. You can help now by a small or large in the campaign. Do not let Dan Savage and the extreme left to win. "

In 2003, an interview with The Associated Press, Santorum said gay sex "undermines the fundamental principles of our society and the family."

"If the Supreme Court says you have the right to consensual sex within your home," Santorum said in the interview, "then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right incest, you have the right to adultery. You are entitled to nothing. undermine the fabric of our society? I would say yes, he does. "