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Google's search bias against conservative news sites has been quantified
Watts Up With That? ^ | 09/08/2017 | Leo Goldstein

Posted on 09/08/2017 8:06:57 AM PDT by McGarrett

The author uses a metric of web traffic to show Google clearly favors climate alarmist and left-leaning sites over those with realistic climate views and conservative leanings.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: bias; climate; conservativesites; google; mediabias
Some conservative sites are essentially blacklisted
1 posted on 09/08/2017 8:06:57 AM PDT by McGarrett
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I definitely have noticed this bias. I often have to go 4 or more pages deep before its not some obviously leftist site.
2 posted on 09/08/2017 8:11:47 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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From my experience, and I do a lot of internet research, you typically have to wade through at least 3 or 4 pages of search results for anything political before you get to a source that isn’t left-wing.


3 posted on 09/08/2017 8:14:29 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: McGarrett

Always interested in learning about preferred search engines and sites for posting images.

How safe is Imgur?


4 posted on 09/08/2017 8:15:53 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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Bookmark for later.


5 posted on 09/08/2017 8:19:46 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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Don’t “Google “ anything. There are several good search engines. It is is a problem that 80% of the world’s internet searches goes through an entity infested with hard leftists. “Google it” has become part of the, lexicon not good.


6 posted on 09/08/2017 8:24:18 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Absolutely.

And usually the first page is comprised of NPR, NBC, CNN, CBS, REUTERS, Guardian, NYT and other leftist sites that the left considers main stream.


7 posted on 09/08/2017 8:30:32 AM PDT by aquila48
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