Election Interference: Google Suppresses Breitbart News in Search – Even with Exact Headline

Breitbart ^ | 10/27/2020 | Allum Bokhari

[Maudeen]

Google, the world’s most powerful technology company, is actively interfering in the coming election by burying links to Breitbart News in its search results.

In July, Breitbart News published data showing that Breitbart’s Google search visibility is down 99 percent compared to the same period in 2016.

RealClearPolitics later published data corroborating this, and showing that the same silent expulsion from Google search results has happened to a variety of other conservative news websites as well.

It appears that Breitbart News links are being hidden on Google searches even when users search for the exact string of words in an original Breitbart headline. When links to Breitbart stories do appear, it is often below obscure websites that plagiarize Breitbart’s content.

Search ranking is critical for web traffic from Google. The search analytics industry has found that the top three search results on Google drive over 70 percent of clicks.

In a new video, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow reveals in additional detail the depth of Google’s suppression of Breitbart’s reporting.

“Breitbart News is, according to Amazon-owned Alexa.com, one of the top five news publishers in the United States, yet if you search — verbatim — Breitbart headlines in Google, you won’t necessarily get any Breitbart results at all,” Marlow said.

The video goes on to demonstrate Google’s suppression of Breitbart News. Click on excerpt link to view.

[Maudeen]

Here’s the link with the video: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/27/election-interference-google-suppresses-breitbart-news-in-search-even-with-exact-headline/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20201027

[econjack]

The Google execs say that they have no control over what their algorithm brings up. Bull shit! AI or not, they control every item a search offers and they know it.

[DarthVader]

You have to search on Breibart News directly and it comes up.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The Google execs say that they have no control over what their algorithm brings up. Bull shit! AI or not, they control every item a search offers and they know it.”

It was a compuder error...

Maybe in my retirement I can be a forensic programmer.

[VanShuyten]

I just tried this one: “ Pennsylvania National Guard Mobilized to Philadelphia After Rioting”, an exact headline from Breitbart.

It didn’t show on the first page, but was top of the second.

[eyeamok]

Shouldn’t the US Marshall’s be SIEZING Their DOMAIN by now??

[ptsal]

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Great suggestion

[citizen]

I use Bing on the PC. They are less domineering, I believe.

[Maudeen]

I use https://duckduckgo.com

[Svartalfiar]

It didn’t show on the first page, but was top of the second.

And when's the last time, before this, that you went to the second page of a search to find the results you were looking for? That's exactly the point - a search for the exact headline of a Breitbart article should be the number one result, not the second page!

[Svartalfiar]

You have to search on Breibart News directly and it comes up.

That's the point. You shouldn't have to search on Breibart, they're a top news organization based on viewership; their articles should be near the top of many generic searches, not just Breitbart or exact headline searches.