Google: No, we’re not cooking search-query autocompletes for partisan results

Hot Air.com ^ | June 11, 2016 | ED MORRISEY

[Vendome]

The hell tbey are not.

I see it my search results.

When I use my devices, I get completely different results than I do when using someone elses device or work computers.

[lee martell]

Sure, you’re not! I noticed your fingers are crossed when you say that.

[Dalberg-Acton]

A Clinton acolyte would lie.

[Da Coyote]

Google has half the credibility of Dorkbama the Muslim Dick.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I wonder if it’s possible to “poison the autocomplete well” by putting out sufficient high-profile vituperation about a candidate. Since, as they say, they filter out vituperation, that might leave Trump behind more than Hillary.

This might reflect nothing more than the fact that Trump attracts more explicit hate.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well that sounds like they are using their record of your searches to customize what you get.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And — just because an entity is hated doesn’t mean it’s bad.

More people explicitly hate God than explicitly hate Satan, but is absolute virtue up for a vote?

We can get so hung up over artifacts that we miss wide open doors pounding with frustration on the shut ones. Google isn’t the way to evangelize for Donald Trump. Fine. Let’s use other ways. Donald himself seems to be a master of Twitter.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Yes. And google will increase your chocolate ration from 25 to 20 grams a month.

[dangus]

>> Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works. Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name. <<

So Google ADMITS that they are inserting themselves as judges of what content they consider “truthful.”

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Hitler: We are not being hurting Jews

0bama: We are not letting terrorists in!

Colonel Sanders: Your chickens are safe with us!

[Bob]

Unless you use an “incognito” or private tab when you do your search, your previous personal search history has a big impact on the results you see. That’s been the case for a long time.

[x]

They must have changed their standards very recently. Kamau Bell used to do a routine where he googled “Pat Buchanan” and the first suggestion was “Pat Buchanan racist.” He may have typed in an r, but there was no ban on negative results coming up first. “Donald Trump r” also, according to various accounts, yielded “Donald Trump racist.” Now it doesn’t.

[palmer]

Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name.

Is Hillary Clinton left handed
Is Hillary Clinton vegan
Is Hillary Clinton dead
Is Hillary Clinton good
Is Hillary Clinton a superdelgate
Is Hillary Clinton going to win
Is Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016

Is Donald Trump married
Is Donald Trump left handed
Is Donald Trump running for president
Is Donald Trump dead
Is Donald Trump electable
Is Donald Trump a draft dodger
Is Donald Trump a democrat
Is Donald Trump racist cnn
Is Donald Trump racist quora

Their statement may be accurate but the determination of offensive is subjective. Also the more important problem is systematic bias within the code at Google. There's little chance that the code has any blatant "if Hillary Clinton then" statements in it. But any reasonably clever programmer can make sure there are equivalent code statements to protect liberals from criticism while trashing conservatives.

[humblegunner]

Yes, Google is Satan.
He’s really mean and doesn’t have good pictures on holidays.

[mountainlion]

gOOGLE is honest in an Orwellian way.

You can tell the anti military, anti conservative, anti AMERICAN bias with the holiday cartoons they post.

I delete everything googlE that I find. Ixquick is my search engine.

[TauntedTiger]

My paper airplane webpage is practically invisible in Google search and I have a Google AdSense account linked to it. Type in paper airplanes and look for xplanes4u.com and see how many abstract other things pop up before you ever see xplanes4u.com.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Google has apparently found it pleases more users that way.

Google isn’t always the cleanest search possible. I find it repeating many older results on new pages of results, and wish that they had an option to suppress such repeats, because I have to keep paging more than I might otherwise want in order to find something that is more obscure.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You don’t understand what mean is.

[cherry]

I had trouble with my lap top and had to use my husbands to google how to fix it....he has yahoo and when I searched for freerepublic it showed everything but.....