(Snicker, Snicker) I use "duckduckgo.com".
Posted on 07/19/2018 12:00:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Online activists angry with President Trump's policies have manipulated Google Images search results, causing images of Trump's face to appear as the top search results for the term "idiot."
The Guardian first reported the campaign Thursday, which appeared to begin on Reddit after an initial campaign aimed to get the hit Green Day song "American Idiot" to the top of the British music charts during Trump's visit to the U.K. last week.
Several posts on Reddit with tens of thousands of upvotes (bots?) could be found promoting the news stories or the general campaign to manipulate the search results. Google Images search results are gathered and presented in order of prominence so high-popularity posts on Reddit, one of the internet's most popular sites, often appear at the top of Google searches.
The Guardian reports that Google executives take very little action to remedy offensive search results that are caused by online activism campaigns, including in 2004 when an offensive caricature began appearing under Google searches for the word "Jew."
Instead, the company has opted to explain the search results through advertisements that appear to users on the site.
“A site’s ranking in Google’s search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page’s relevance to a given query,” the company explained in 2004. “Sometimes subtleties of language cause anomalies to appear that cannot be predicted.”
The tactic was favored by right-leaning members of the Reddit community during the 2016 election, who frequently used popular posts on the infamous pro-Trump r/The_Donald subreddit to alter Google results to display former President Bill Clinton's face under results for the term "rapist." Those images no longer appear, as the company's algorithm changes results regularly.
Other past Google campaigns from online activists have targeted companies such as Comcast over opposition to net neutrality, as well as other politicians and companies.
My suspicion is that all of these “activists” work in building 43 at Google in Mountain View, CA. When they did this with Bush they just bypassed the algorithms.
(Snicker, Snicker) I use "duckduckgo.com".
I believe you have identified the cause.
I just googled "First Illegal Alien American President" and never got even one hit on Barack Obama.
So right there is proof that someone is manipulating the data.
I’m a deplorable idiot Trump voter.
There - I fixed it for them!
Google stopped being a search engine long ago
Smells Like Teen Spirt
“With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
Building 43.
That would make a great title for a dystopian novel.
This is AMERICA! This is the PRESIDENT for Heaven's sake!
I pray for Donald's safety.
It’s a fairly dystopian place. The only good excuses to go there are to check out the Spaceship One model hanging from the ceiling and of course, at lunch on lobster days.
I think it is safe to say the entire tech sector tried to manipulate the internet and other technologies such as voting machines along with money “bundling” to push Clinton.
Those activists are GooGle.
I use Bing and DuckDuckGo. I hope everyone has made the switch. Google’s market share will continue to erode since it’s now widely regarded as an untrustworthy information source.
FWIW,
The Left/Progressives are insane and they don’t care. They reject any and all aspects of objective truth and reason, and they don’t care.
They actually celebrate this.
David Byrne Road To Nowhere
Watch and listen closely to the words they celebrate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhmeG691Xg
Google is no ones friend. It is a malevolent entity.
Somebody aint lying.
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