Posted on 04/09/2019 6:24:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Exclusive: Documents Detailing Google’s ‘news Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results
Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.
Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating the blacklist as when there is a demand,” reads one of the documents shared with The Daily Caller.
“The deceptive_news domain blacklist is going to be used by many search features to filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor and misrepresentation policies,” the policy document says. (RELATED: Meet The Five Google Staffers Who Circulated The Petition To Drop Kay Coles James)
That document reads that it was, “approved by gomes@, nayak@, haahr@ as of 8/13/2018.” Ben Gomes is Google’s head of search, who reports directly to CEO Sundar Pichai. Pandu Nayak is a Google Fellow, and Paul Haahr is a software engineer, whose bio on Google’s internal network Moma indicates that he is also involved in, “fringe ranking: not showing fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, or science/medical/history denial unless we’re sure that’s what the user wants.”
“The purpose of the blacklist will be to bar the sites from surfacing in any Search feature or news product. It will not cause a demotion in the organic search results or de-index them altogether,” reads the policy document obtained by the Caller. What that means is that targeted sites will not be removed from the “ten blue links” portion of search results, but the blacklist applies to most of the other search features, like “top news,” “videos” or the various sidebars that are returned as search results.
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Blacklists from those Most Prominent in endlessly decrying blacklists:
The same America-hating tribe.
Google might learn from this that perhaps blacklisting is wrong or not worth the shame, or conclude, since they can’t even root out their own liberty-minded leakers, that their totalitarian schemes are doomed to fail.
I expect their take-away will be that they will have to blacklist and purge even more thoroughly.
When the patterns show a consistency in who and what they block and allow through, then, it cannot be questioned that Google and Facebook and Twitter are biased and using their biases to favor democrats, consistently.
Liberals don’t do the accusations, because, why would they when Google and Facebook and Twitter are doing their bidding?
Simple common sense shows their biases. Those biases can be denied, but the consistency in the pattern of their selective blocking indicates different.
Nazi book burners of the modern world.
The same America-hating tribe.
And we put up with it.
Americans are like a prisoner standing in the middle of his cell, shouting out through the bars, “I’m free! I’m free!”
Google is pure evil.
that’s an excellent analogy.
Hey I knew that word, nice..!
It’s a great word. Even better when shortened to ‘oiks.’
LOL
More evidence that Google, FB, Instagram, Twit, and the like are all utilities and need to be regulated as utilities. People need to police their own computers and leave these utilities to provide access only.
I would pay for the utility service, if all I got was access (the road)
Google also blacklists stories that are bad for Democrats. Had a dramatic example unfold in a conversation with a friend that gets his info from Google News, showing him what other search engines would produce for current events searches vs. what Google produces. The news feed appears to be meticulously curated to make sure no bad stories for Democrats appear.
Also it’s not just the news. He simply could not find perfectly legitimate articles in Google when they came up on top of other search engine rankings. Orwell had nothing on these guys.
Fahrenheit 404.
The Subversive Book authors have become the Book Burners...?
What on earth could be next..?
GAY TOWN...!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvBW08U1YI
(super funny reversal)
Break em up!
Not sure how that works :)
At the core, they are already utilities. Google owns youtube and hosts videos. That is simply a utility: video storage and retrieval. Then they go further and place ads, links from video to video, recommended videos, etc. Are you going to ban that functionality?
More importantly, regulated by who? Idiotic government bureaucrats with deep state ties and leftist leanings. The real problem is the difficulty of sorting out the algorithmic bias. How is anyone supposed to figure out that an algorithm with millions of lines of obtuse code didn't move your site down in the rankings a few notches?
How many ways could they do that? Practically infinite. They can add the ratio of married heterosexual viewers and lower your ranking because you have lots of those. How do they know a viewer is married and heterosexual? An infinite number of ways, and it doesn't even have to be accurate. They can just make a sloppy guess and theeir soft censorship will be just as effective based on the statistics.
However I have lots of ideas. 1. use competing services. 2. create tools that detect bias. 3. support bias detection research and organizations. 4. support good causes. 5. live a wholesome life. 6. stay educated about the enemy.
Bring them back to Congress to explain this. Would be interesting.
All named need to be providing testimony under oath for future reference.
Liberals don’t do the accusations, because, why would they when Google and Facebook and Twitter are doing their bidding?
Simple common sense shows their biases. Those biases can be denied, but the consistency in the pattern of their selective blocking indicates different.
Liberals? The GOP is just fine with pocketing Google payola while they censor grassroots conservatives. Look how much they hated the Tea Party and hate POTUS.
More importantly, regulated by who? Idiotic government bureaucrats with deep state ties and leftist leanings. The real problem is the difficulty of sorting out the algorithmic bias. How is anyone supposed to figure out that an algorithm with millions of lines of obtuse code didn’t move your site down in the rankings a few notches?
How many ways could they do that? Practically infinite. They can add the ratio of married heterosexual viewers and lower your ranking because you have lots of those. How do they know a viewer is married and heterosexual? An infinite number of ways, and it doesn’t even have to be accurate. They can just make a sloppy guess and theeir soft censorship will be just as effective based on the statistics.
First thing needed is a new bill of rights for the 21st century that limits online tracking. Then just split youtube into two companies. A streaming service and an ad company. Do not let them share data. Problem solved.
google searches are so faked now that i’m forced to turn to bing searches more and more ...
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