Posted on 09/14/2020 5:45:21 AM PDT by Helicondelta
To appreciate what Google has done, you need to start with search engines other than Google. I’m betting that your results will echo mine.
The search engines I chose were Bing, DogPile, and DuckDuckGo. These are all among Google’s top competitors. In each of these search engines, I typed the words “Joe Biden.” In all three, one of the top suggested searches was “Joe Biden dementia”:
I then expanded the search by adding the word “has.” The search engines offered me a whole menu of possibilities related to Biden’s mental competence:
What these three search engines reflect is that some of the most common searches on the internet for Biden relate to his mental competence. Since that is such a popular search, you would guess that Google would return identical results. That guess would be wrong.
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What this means is that if you’re an American voter who wants to find out what most Americans think when it comes to Joe Biden, you won’t get that information using America’s most popular search engine. Google is hiding from you that people are deeply concerned about Biden’s cognitive abilities.
Google isn’t only lying about what matters to people. Google is also refusing to list articles. Breitbart has complained about Google purging its site from search results. Of course, Breitbart is a big target, which makes it easier to strike. However, Google is purging anti-Obama posts (which also means anti-Biden posts) from small sites.
Scott Adams, who ran this search experiment himself, says that what Google is doing is bigger than just hiding information. It is making the topic vanish. He explains that the media dictates everything we think we know. If the media doesn’t report it, we don’t know it:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
So Google is right there with MSM helping a dementia patient become POTUS. Treason.
The answer is free and open competition...I switched to Bing and DuckDuckGo earlier this year...
Users should simply move on to other search engines...
...and hope Google does not buy them up...
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I keep telling my useful idiot lefty friends, “You see what you are shown”.
And that is all.
On the search words “Joe Biden” I got similar results in Bing and DuckDuckGo as I did in Google.
I, as a libertarian and free enterprise believer, rooted for the internet and the new tech companies that got it going. The old tech like IBM and the Phone monopolies were only oriented towards business-to-business / government in the 1970-90s time frame. The home should be happy with the 4-fold increase from 300 to 1200 Baud, what more was needed?
That being said, what was new tech has become monopolistic themselves and I say that without reference to their LEFT Coast home & orientation. There are real world stages in the growth of a new business niche. Multiple start-ups want to compete and want a level playing field. Older companies are content with their operations but frequently have an advantage in overhead operations. They have skilled accountants, lawyers and regulatory advantages that the newbie struggles with.
The next stage is when, after the under-capitalized and under-performing start-ups are winnowed out, you have a select group of companies with good products and motivated employees. They are making a mark and the older companies see some rivalry and also some partnerships in these new companies. There is also a strong effort to clarify where and how laws and regulations need to be relaxed as applying against old tech problems.
Then comes our current stage, where there is little daylight for small companies in what WAS a new niche. What had been a myriad of new companies struggling for success, has now become secure and profitable monopoly & duopolies. They have played their own games to advance regulations and laws that PROTECT them from competition and fought to keep the sweetheart rules from their start-up days. They now have the skilled accountants, lawyers and regulatory advantages that the newbie struggles with.
So Google, like Twitter & Facebook, has a corporate facade of private enterprise and thus a legal right to ‘police’ its own operations. They have a strong protection in the fact that their viewpoints and contributions match well to the LEFT and Democrat / Socialist agendas. They have a prior history of surviving ‘bias’ challenges against their platforms as they are mere conduits not providers.
I am still of a libertarian bent and I am still in favor of ‘FREE Enterprise’ (more than ‘Private’) but we are seeing monopolistic quashing of free speech by obvious PROVIDERS (not conduits) in these companies. In contrast to Googles’ old slogan, they are evil! Break them up, at least for liberating these opinion platforms.
Try google news. CNN dominates. You have to scroll to the second page to see a single article from Fox News.
A few years ago it wasn’t like this at all.
It's the autofill on the search function on your browser.
If you type your search into the usual URL location on your browser, your default search engine does what's called an "autofill".
If you start typing "does joe" into DuckDuckGo or Bing, the "Does Joe Biden have dementia" comes right up on the list of selections.
You have to type the ENTIRE string into Goolag - and it NEVER brings up the autofill...
Gaming Google results is big business. People legitimately make their living doing it and a lot of those people majored in English in college. Google is very approachable for liberal arts majors, unlike most other platforms.
With that in mind, Bing is a heck of a lot less biased. Google will give better results for a lot of things but they have gone to hell in a hand basket politically. They really should consider changing the way they handle political news.
Also, if you change the time period of the Google results to last 24 hours or last week you can undo a lot of the search engine optimization.
I would have to keep changing the default search engine in my browser to see the difference in the “autofil” results.
That’s a waste of time.
Anyone not realizing, for a long time now, that Google’s search results are politically biased simply has not been doing very many Internet searches.
I would guess if we organized here at FR as individuals to post the url’s over and over it sometimes allows those links to be at the top of results - much the same as you do in sales to get your product listed you might post your prices multiple times daily to ensure prospective buyers on search engines see you in the first few links.
No one will be able to find bad articles on Sleepy DEMENTIA Joe!
Barr needs to get 100 web experts to see if that is what Google is doing, if so shut Google down & bankrupt them!!!!
These engines take your past search and browsing history and factor it in when serving up autocomplete results.
In general, different people doing the same Google search will get different autocomplete suggestions.
I quit using google and went to duckduckgo several years ago, was already using duck long before Trump announced he was going to run.
I knew google was manipulating their autocomplete suggestions long ago, I saw it done with Hillary.
If you type in:
“Hillary Clinton cri”
without the quotes...trying to search for info on hillary’s criminal investigation, (email server) and look at google’s drop down suggestions, then do the same at bing or duckuckgo, you’ll see totally different results.
Google will not show a thing that even resembles “criminal”, while duckduckgo and bing both have it at the top or close to the top.
I tried it with Trump’s name instead, got similar results, with the reverse bias. And that was while both Trump and Hillary were still campaigning.
To get actual specific results pertaining to the criminal investigation into Hillarys email server, at google I had to type in
“Hillary Clinton criminal investigation.”
The complete sentence...nothing else would turn up anything related to the investigation. Not even part of the word “investigation” would do the trick...the whole banana or forget it, google did not want to show me any search suggestions at all pertaining to Hillary’s criminal investigation.
But type in Trump’s name and you can guess what would happen... the word criminal showed up in their drop down box in every context they could think of.
I use Startpage for my search engine.
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