Posted on 06/09/2016 7:48:46 PM PDT by poinq
A newly-released YouTube video makes a compelling case that, for unclear reasons, Google search results appear manipulated in favor of Hillary Clinton.
The video is the work of SourceFed, a channel with over 1.7 million subscribers that posts a variety of news, pop culture, and explanatory videos.
WATCH:
The video’s claims revolve around the potential searches Google recommends based on what a user has typed into the search bar, and how those recommendations differ from other search engines.
Do You Think Google Is Manipulating Searches To Be Pro-Hillary Clinton?
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In contrast, when “Hillary Clinton crim” is typed into the search bars of Bing and Yahoo, it produces top suggestions such as “Hillary Clinton criminal” and “Hillary Clinton criminal investigation.”
Similarly, despite rampant speculation that Clinton may be indicted over her handling of Department of State emails, “Hillary Clinton indi” produces suggestions like “Hillary Clinton india” and “Hillary Clinton indiana” instead of “Hillary Clinton indictment,” even though the latter is a far more popular search term. Once again, Bing is completely different, and indictment-related searches dominate the suggestion box.
“It’s like if you put three people into a room that’s on fire, and two out of three people yell ‘Fire!’ and the third person yells ‘I’m in a room!,” SourceFed’s Matt Lieberman says in the video.
It’s not hard to find additional examples that further reflect SourceFed’s findings. For example, “Hillary Clinton dis” produces “Hillary Clinton discusses monica lewinsky” and “Hillary Clinton disclosure” as suggestions on Google, while Bing and Yahoo suggest “Hillary Clinton disbarred” and “Hillary Clinton dishonest.” On Bing and Yahoo, “Hillary Clinton mu” leads to murder-related suggestions, while on Google the top suggestion is “Hillary Clinton music video.” “Hillary Clinton Benghazi” produces suggestions of a “Benghazi cover-up” on Bing and Yahoo, while the term is nowhere to be seen on Google.
On the other hand, the three search engines are sometimes aligned. “Hillary Clinton li” produces “Hillary Clinton lies” and “Hillary Clinton liar” on all three engines.
Notably, the video comes just two days after Julian Assange of Wikileaks alleged that Google is collaborating with the Clinton campaign to put her in the White House.
Google almost certainly did this with Obama as well.
absolutely true and easy to verify:
searches for: hillary clinton indictment
google yields 1.4 million hits
bing yields 18.4 million hits
yahoo yield 14.8 million hits
Clearly google is manipulating searches to help Hillary. Now THIS is what Congress should REALLY be investigating!
Good video.
I have never used google.
I found it worth watching. Well done.
YouTube count: posted today.... 90,638 views
15,698+ 371-
Let’s all do the Google Goosestep!
Ping for later viewing
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Google has become ubiquitous but isn’t it still a private company and doesn’t need to give fair equal time? Can’t it be legally pro Hillary?
Another sneaky thing they’ve done is not to let you go straight to page 10 or 100 of your search but force you to go one very short page at a time.
Here is page 10 of a search, fetched right after page 1:
If you turn off Google Instant, you can configure Google to return as many as 100 results per page. However, if Google Instant is on, then it is limited to 10 results per page. I've found that if you don't find what you want on the first page, it's usually better to reword the query than to push through page after page.
““Hillary Clinton music video.””
No thanks.
Saw one on “Mad TV” a parody of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”.
I watched in mounting horror as google systematically and deliberately removed HALF A MILLION results from image searches for “obama birth certificate” in mid-July 2007.
I still avoid google whenever possible.
google is a public company.
“fairness” rules apply only to TV/radio stations that require an FCC license to use public broadcast air-wave spectrum.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/blogging-tools/conservative-search-engine/
Search Engine just for news topics or conservative topics which alters Google’s search results to all conservative sites.
Other search engines to use.
Private email service.
Of course they were.
The same search using the conservative search engine.
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