The Syrian Arab News Agency doesn’t show up in Google when you search for [Syrian Arab News Agency] but it does come up in Bing when you search for [Syrian Arab News Agency].

Why? Is Google censoring the Syrian news web site because of what is going on between the United States of America and Syria? Nah.

Google’s Distinguished Engineer, Matt Cutts, spotted the rumors in a Hacker News thread and said Google is absolutely not blocking or censoring the The Syrian Arab News Agency. In fact, he said since August, Google has had a hard to indexing the site, as if The Syrian Arab News Agency is maybe blocking Google intentionally or unintentionally.

Matt Cutts said in the thread:

Why is Bing and DuckDuckGo able to index the site? That is a good question. It makes me think that the agency specifically is blocking Google and not other search engines.

Matt Cutts did add:

Here is a screen shot of Google’s search results for the agency’s name:

Here is a screen shot of Bing’s search results for the agency’s name:

Forum discussion at Hacker News.