Relative to 2000, today you have to scroll six times as far down the page to get to the first real, unpaid link to an outside website... Posted on 10/21/2020 12:30:25 PM PDT by daniel1212
Let’s Google together. Open a Web browser and search for T-shirts. I’ll wait.
Is the first thing you see a search result? I’m not talking about the stuff labeled Ads or Maps. On my screen, the actual result is not in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or even eighth row of stuff. It’s buried on row nine....Google is, quite literally, a bad personal shopper. Here, side by side, are Google results for T-shirts from the Wayback Machine in 2000 and 2013 alongside what I see in 2020..
Relative to 2000, today you have to scroll six times as far down the page to get to the first real, unpaid link to an outside website...
Search 2: “question one nevada” This search result, you won’t actually find now, because it was so egregious Google fixed it in September. Question One is an initiative on the November ballot that would change how Nevada manages higher education. A few weeks ago Elliot Anderson, a former state lawmaker who helped get Question One on the ballot, noticed that Googling “question one Nevada” generated a box at the top of the results that began: “Vote ‘no’ on Question 1.”
Search 3: “pediatricians arlington va” Google’s conflict of interest can lead us to make bad choices. When you search for pediatricians, Google tops the results with a big Google Map. On my map, Google calls out three doctors’ offices. Are these the best, or most popular ones in the area? Look closer: Two of them get a sub-4-star rating and have fewer than 20 reviews.
Congress said Google’s practice is dangerous, writing on page 188 of its report that it has “the effect of privileging Google’s own inferior services while demoting competitors’ offerings...”
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And Google also seems to favor pages that provide cursory treatments of subjects. Other search engines do not show much improvement what what I have seen.
However, Google is a private company, and we effectively "vote" for such by using them, and government regulation in the realm of providing search results and ideology should not be supported.
However, monopolistic practices and unlawful stifling of competition is a problem that government can address.
But Google actually allows you to make your own custom search engine, , by the grace of God, as explained here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3819209/posts
The obvious one is that they use their ability to rank results as a Cash Cow. If someone goes looking for you online your result may fall 5th. or 6th. on the page while they are misdirected to click a link to your competitor.
It’s getting very bad. Whenever I see a good talking point from the right and I want to go directly to the source or website - when I google it the first 60 results are liberal fact checker websites already debunking the talking point or statement before actually finding the original website source.
I searched for “t-shirts” in duckduckgo and Zazzle came up first. Amazon t-shirts was second. I didn’t even try searching google. I refuse to
100%.
Try searching for your state’s DMV website.
It will be 4 or 5 down, after all the other sites hoping you’ll visit them to complete the same vehicle services at an increased premium.
But google isn’t alone. Bing plays the same game.
Do a google search on Hillary’s crimes and all kinds of sites come up dogging on Trump.
Do a bing search on Hillary’s crimes and all kinds of sites come up documenting Hillary’s crimes.
Go figure
Google doesn’t help you find wqhat you want to find.
Google helps you find what Google wants you to find.
Google “white couples” and view the Images — it’s 99% pictures of inter-racial couples. Nothing wrong with that. But it’s not what I searched.
pj media comes up # 4.
bookmark
Antifa.com
Goes to Biden donation page
Or county tax assessor
Or In custody jail info
“...Google actually allows you to make your own...”
Mighty nice of them.
I tried this morning, something like “Hunter Biden molested his young niece”, and could get NOTHING that remotely resembled that theme.
You can type in -something to exclude unwanted results. This is useful when I am searching for an 18th-century artist who has the same name as an NFL football player.
Meanwhile, no one’s lifting a finger to deal with telecom’s abuse of the news
It’s been quite curious to se ADs for google on the TeeVee.
They feeling some heat?
Do a search for Tucker or Laura. First, you’ll see Cobert ridiculing him and you’ll see a SNL spoof on Laura.
Haven’t used Google since they went public.
Then I searched for a string of text on my brand new website to see how quickly the search engines would pick it up. I did this search less than 24 hours after the site went live. Neither the site nor the text string had anything to do with politics. I ran the identical search on each of the six search engines.
Four of the search engines returned my website as the first result. The fifth one returned it as the fourth result, and Google did not contain my website at all on the first page of results. I did not check subsequent pages.
My conclusion is the same as another poster's: Google doesn't show you what you want to find, it shows you what Google wants you to look at.
The search engines I most commonly use are duckduckgo and dogpile.
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