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VANITY: Something very interesting. A Bing search only provides "Fake News" outlets.
Bing ^ | 3APR17 | vannrox

Posted on 05/03/2017 5:46:40 AM PDT by vannrox

I wanted to do a search on what the content of the budget agreement was between Congress that is all in the news today. I wanted specifics. So I went on Google, and then on Bing, and then finally on Duckduckgo.

What was so bothersome to me was that the top rated search items were all "Fake News". Nearly every single one. Yet the links to find the absolute content of the bill is located on pages 674 etc. Why is this so.

I ask the FR audience to try it yourself. Type in Trump and budget, and april. Then go through the results. It will look like this...

Huffington Post Salon Washington Post CNN NBC MSNBC CBS NY Times Fox

It's getting to be rather worrisome when you can't perform some basic searches without getting overwhelmed by fake news.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bing; censorship; fake; fakenews; internet; news; trump; trumpbudget
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1 posted on 05/03/2017 5:46:40 AM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

I highly recommend:

https://duckduckgo.com/

Great search engine, and it will not track you.


2 posted on 05/03/2017 5:49:44 AM PDT by budj
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You think that’s bad, Google “Famous white men”. Now click on images tab.


3 posted on 05/03/2017 5:50:56 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: vannrox

It’s hard when almost everything has become fake news and an anti trump propaganda site


4 posted on 05/03/2017 5:51:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: budj

It’s not a budget, it’s a continuing resolution. Try that. Possibly dem talking points call it a budget so you get fake news sites that regurgitate the talking points


5 posted on 05/03/2017 5:56:35 AM PDT by MulberryDraw
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To: budj
"I highly recommend: https://duckduckgo.com/"

I'll second that.

6 posted on 05/03/2017 5:58:44 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: vannrox
I don't doubt that access to primary sources is less likely than it used to be, but getting to primary sources has been difficult, IMO, always. If you want to avail yourself of primary sources, you have to learn what those sources are, and navigate directly to them, entirely bypassing the "popular" press and its captive search engines.

Wonder about a court case? Learn to navigate the state and federal court systems' websites. I've actually hired a runner to get filings. Wonder about legislation, committees, hearings? Learn to navigate the legislative websites. Wonder about executive branch and administrative agencies? Navigate to them directly.

The function of search engines is to learn about YOU, and to manipulate your world view. Same with the press. Heck, same with the crap I write, I aim to manipulate the reader too.

7 posted on 05/03/2017 6:04:20 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: LambSlave
You think that’s bad, Google “Famous white men”. Now click on images tab.

UNREAL!

I use 'Start Page" and it's all "White men who married black women"...

So GOGGLED - SAME THING - all celebs, (and all current, hardly 'historical" - not ONE historical figure, like say, maybe George Washington or Paul Revere?

this is bizarre.

So is THIS how they'll control the Internet? Flood out REAL links?

8 posted on 05/03/2017 6:06:00 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (cHRISTIAN IS AS CHRISTIAN DOES)
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To: vannrox

I clicked on the News app on my Iphone. Now I get daily notices from the alphabet news sources...all MSM propaganda. And to think millions get the same..


9 posted on 05/03/2017 6:06:21 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: simpson96; budj
"I highly recommend: https://duckduckgo.com/" I'll second that.

I believe Google owns that now too -

10 posted on 05/03/2017 6:11:43 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (cHRISTIAN IS AS CHRISTIAN DOES)
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To: budj

I highly recommend:

https://startpage.com

Great search engine, and it will not track you.


11 posted on 05/03/2017 6:17:02 AM PDT by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: simpson96
I wonder when Facebook drops pretense and just redirects to Faceboot


12 posted on 05/03/2017 6:17:16 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: vannrox

Bing: first item after typing: text of continuing budget resolution, 2017.

http://appropriations.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394665

thats a summary with a link to the full document at house.gov at the bottom of the summary.


13 posted on 05/03/2017 6:22:31 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Rennes Templar
Once you know, viewing the selected news is great insight into DeepState. And once you know, you understand why they react so strongly to being labeled "fake."

During the election, CNN was pretty near a direct pipeline to DNC/Hillary campaign arguments. Today, the array of press outlets is fairly direct view of the daily effort to diminish Trump. He has few allies in places of power.

14 posted on 05/03/2017 6:25:06 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: LambSlave
You think that’s bad, Google “Famous white men”. Now click on images tab.

That's just absurd; especially when you compare the results from other races. No google, you don't have agendas.
15 posted on 05/03/2017 6:34:21 AM PDT by simon says what
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To: vannrox

Top results at Bing and Google are sponsored. They are discernable, but only with some effort sometimes.

Bing pays you to use them. I just ordered a nice little thing at Amazon paid for by Bing.


16 posted on 05/03/2017 6:39:51 AM PDT by old-ager
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To: Cboldt

I think of it in terms of Newton’s first law of motion: An object at rest tends to stay at rest (deepstate), and an object in motion tends to stay in motion: Trump.

We need to keep giving Trump energy to keep him in motion to overcome the inertia of the establishment...


17 posted on 05/03/2017 6:54:38 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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Google Search on “Trump Budget” 7:50am Wed 5/3/17 Official Trump Budget Released - Environment Takes Biggest Hit‎ An Ad
www.earthisland.org/news/annual_budget‎ Then… Fox, Whitehouse. Never use Bing

www.foxnews.com/.../trump-defends-1-trillion-budget-bill-in-face-conservative-fury.ht...
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/.../budget/.../2018_blueprint.p...
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/new-budget-trump-gets-nothing
www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/white-house-budget-mick-mulvaney/
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/.../trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-s-frustration-with-com...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/15/us/.../trump-budget-proposal.html
www.npr.org/2017/03/16/520379061/read-president-trumps-budget-blueprint
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/donald-trump-meet.../519798/
www.washingtonpost.com/...budget...trumps.../29739206-05be-11e7-b9fa-ed727...
www.nature.com/news/us-science-agencies-face-deep-cuts-in-trump-budget-1.21652
18 posted on 05/03/2017 7:00:23 AM PDT by SF Geo (Obama, coward, woman)
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To: maine-iac7
So is THIS how they'll control the Internet? Flood out REAL links?

It's more than controlling the internet, it is the same thing all Marxists do during "cultural revolutions"-- they destroy all the old records of history and replace them with new versions that fit their agenda. Since the internet is how people are being educated today, they are essentially elf imposed re-education camps. I ran across a whole list of these else where and some of them were just unbelievable, and the sheer number shows it is clearly an agenda.

19 posted on 05/03/2017 7:12:33 AM PDT by LambSlave
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My first clue would be that it is NOT a Trump budget in ANY regard. It is a CR required to get Obloviate’s final half-@$$ed budget to the end of the fiscal year. Trump’s FIRST budget does not come into view until September


20 posted on 05/03/2017 7:22:52 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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