[rlmorel]

I used to think Google was great. You could find the answer to nearly anything. Or so you thought.

I used to use Google all the time, and at some point, the results I began to get back were...well...not what I wanted. I found what I was looking for several pages back, and I believe it is standard behavior for a lot of people not to go that far. So they end up clicking on what Google provides to them.

I began paying attention, and realized that even though I KNEW that Google "shaped" its returns...I came to realize it wasn't doing it strictly from a commerce perspective which is what I expected...it was doing it from a political perspective, and an extreme Leftist anti-American perspective.

I had never paid much attention to the stupid "Google Doodles". When I began paying attention to them at the same time I began viewing their political shaping of returns, it confirmed my conclusions.

What really shook me as it took several years for this to fully sink in, is that there are probably 4 billion computer users on Earth today who view Google as the font of information about...history, politics, science, you name it. And Google has decided it wants to manipulate the thoughts and conclusions of people using its product using the subtle forces of AI, to mold and shape "correct thought" in people.

Bill Whittle did a masterful video recently called:

The Stolen Election Part II: Stoners and Reptiles

The whole video is worth watching, but his interpretation and presentation of the Big Tech interference in the election is critical. Near the end, if you go to the 14 minute mark of the video, he discusses a video, created for top level Google executives (and meant only for their eyes) that was leaked to the public called "The Selfish Ledger (Link to their video)".

Bill Whittle calls it the most frightening thing he has yet seen from the Left, and I agree with him.

It describes how Google views our "ledger" to be compiled by the compilation of our online activities into a "fingerprint" of who and what we are, and likens it to our DNA that identifies us, and how they wish to alter that DNA-like "Ledger" to manipulate people to "think the right way".

Chilling. DuckDuckGo may be less capable, but I don't think they are as evil as the scumbags at Google.

[ifinnegan]

Google was great.

It gave 100’s of pages of returns and gold could be mined.

It controls presented results now.

Lots of completely non-political stuff is missing because of this.

They’ve gone from providing information to controlling information.

[yesthatjallen]

"I used to think Google was great. You could find the answer to nearly anything."

Google started out good. Searches returned awesome results. The results were based on actual queries. They sold their soul to the devil and now deliberately manipulate searches based on liberal ideology algorithms. Their bias is driving people away but they earn billions so they don't care.

[telescope115]

Thanks for the info and links! I”ll check it out later tonight.👍

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I switched to DDG about two years ago as my default after I had noticed the same thing -- BIG discrepancy in how the search results are ordered and curated with conservative information getting kicked way down (or not being returned at all). Sometimes I don't find what I want on DDG and I will try Google but that is happening less and less.

Here is a Reddit post from four years ago complaining about the idealogical tilt of Google search results:

Does DuckDuckGo use Google search results?

One poster says that DDG uses the Yahoo and Bing search engines. I've heard this before. I clicked the link he provided to DDG "sources" and that DDG page refers you to their Wiki page which informs us:

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites, including Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the results.

Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by deleting search results for companies he believes are content mills, such as Demand Media's eHow, which publishes 4,000 articles per day produced by paid freelance writers, which Weinberg states to be "low-quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google's search index". DuckDuckGo also filters pages with substantial advertising.

Note that Wiki says that "Yandex N.V. is a multinational corporation primarily for Russian and Russian-language users, providing 70 Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information services, e-commerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.

The firm is registered in Schiphol, the Netherlands as a naamloze vennootschap (Dutch public limited company), but the company founders and most of the team members are located in Russia."

I've been very impressed with the design of Yandex. So you, too, can join the Hillary Russian Conspiracy Kookism by using DDG which farms searches out to the Russians!