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
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.
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“...Google actually allows you to make your own...”
Mighty nice of them.
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.
Google needs to be stomped, like the domestic enemy it is.
DuckDuckGo returned 2 paid ads and some images before amazon, which is apparently unpaid.
Google is an extortion racket. Pure mafia, only a google times more profitable.