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1 posted on 10/14/2014 6:45:56 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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To: mystery-ak

Google cooks the searches as well. Search anything to do with Obama in the last election and it went for the first page and often the second to left-leaning websites to give their spin on the issue.


2 posted on 10/14/2014 6:47:26 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: mystery-ak

Who is doing the “ranking”.

CC


3 posted on 10/14/2014 6:47:59 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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4 posted on 10/14/2014 6:48:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: mystery-ak

In the graphs, the ordinate is upside down.


5 posted on 10/14/2014 6:52:57 PM PDT by gasport (Does the EPA protect the human environment?)
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To: mystery-ak

Who is this idiot? The trends ARE OPPOSITE what are stated. The number axis is reversed!


6 posted on 10/14/2014 6:55:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: mystery-ak

Those graphs are meaningless without the vertical axis labeled. In fact, if the units are related to hits, it appears that the hits on conservative websites are increasing as of late. The vertical axis seems to be reversed.


7 posted on 10/14/2014 6:56:25 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: mystery-ak

They’re learning from tactics seen before with the Soviets, ‘organized dispersal of tailored misinformation.’ Actually, this is something NASA also used to be accused of.


11 posted on 10/14/2014 7:03:16 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: mystery-ak; All

Will somebody please explain to me why the undefined y-axis units for the both the conservative and left web sites are inverted as if the graphs have been flipped vertically? When that’s taken into consideration then the conservative sites are actually getting the bigger numbers.

What am I overlooking?


12 posted on 10/14/2014 7:04:18 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: mystery-ak

It’s the search engines.
They and their advertisers make money from government-subsidized consumer spending- which conservatives oppose.

Why anyone would think the search engines would be ‘fair’ instead of profit-oriented is beyond me.


13 posted on 10/14/2014 7:11:57 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mystery-ak

The Alexa right hand axis is RANKING so the lower the number the lower the rank, now the graphs make sense.


14 posted on 10/14/2014 7:12:10 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: mystery-ak

What do the graphs of the consistently ranked best web sites look like? It would have been nice if the graphs showed y-axis “units.” Maybe a 1 on the y-axis means best-ranked.


15 posted on 10/14/2014 7:20:51 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: mystery-ak

alexa.com is owned by Amazon.com

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/your-favorite-news-sites-shafted-by-amazon/


16 posted on 10/14/2014 7:20:54 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: mystery-ak

It may be evidence of a massive leftwing gaming of search engine results for candidates. Control the message to influence the election.


17 posted on 10/14/2014 7:37:39 PM PDT by John Robinson (HTML::Parse: Skipping unknown tag sarcasm)
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To: mystery-ak

Interesting but ... so?


18 posted on 10/14/2014 7:45:42 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: mystery-ak

the numbers are upside down which makes it look like numbers are going up when if fact they’re going down.
Tricky way to deceive I think


20 posted on 10/14/2014 8:42:06 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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