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Google is up to its regular election tricks, according to the Media Research Center. An MRC investigation found that when searching for a candidates name with “presidential race 2024,” Joe Biden’s campaign website is the top result, while Donald Trump’s campaign website doesn’t appear on the first page. The MRC reports that as the 2024 presidential race heats up, concerns are growing about the role of technology giants in shaping public opinion and access to information. A recent investigation MRC has uncovered what they claim to be evidence of bias in Google’s search results, potentially impacting the visibility of presidential...

"We're becoming much more proactive. We own the science, and we think that the world should know it," the UN's Melissa Fleming said at the WEF's "Sustainable Development Impact Meetings." 'We own the science': UN rep announces Google partnership during World Economic Forum 'disinformation' panel Image During a World Economic Forum (WEF) anti-disinformation panel last week, a United Nations representative announced that they "own the science," in reference to their "climate information" partnership with Google. At the WEF's "Sustainable Development Impact Meetings," participants from the UN, CNN, and Brown University discussed best practices on controlling narratives as part of the...

Google?? No notice or recognition of the anniversary of one of the most destructive attact on CONUS in 10+ years? Really?

Google has quietly escalated censorship of its market-dominating search engine, adding a range of new topics where human moderators are allowed to manually penalize websites, suppressing them in search results. If a website is affected by one of these manual acts of censorship, “some or all of that site will not be shown in Google search results,” according to the tech giant. SNIP Publishers who have been hit with a manual action by Google will be able to appeal the decision by “fixing” whatever issue violated the policy and then submitting their website to Google for a review. Google states...

Like Fox News and other right-wing media, KMOX must be identified as one of the fomenters of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The criminal actions undertaken by the mob were fueled daily by the hatred and lies of Rush Limbaugh and those listeners who follow him. The station is now a shameful part of our local legacy.

Not surprising. Google has already rigged search results for certain Islamic searches without being at all subtle about it. But the explosive thing here is that it was a response to a specific government policy. That takes Google out of the realm of rigging results and into anti-government activism. Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed ways they might be able to tweak the company’s search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, according to internal company emails. The email traffic, reviewed...

Google has launched a brand new feature for its artificially intelligent Google Assistant that’s designed to cheer people up by filtering negative news. Simply ask your phone (or the Google Home speaker) to ‘tell me something good’ and you’ll be given a nice summary of positive stories about people solving real problems. ‘These days we’re consuming more news than ever, and sometimes, it can feel like there are only problems out there,’ explained Ryan Burke, a creative producer at Google’s Creative Lab. ‘But the fact is, there is a plethora of ‘good news’ happening, and we’re not talking about unlikely...

Google Search is found to be extremely biased in favor of climate alarmism and against climate realism. The PGSTN ranges for climate realism and climate alarmism do not even overlap! Some of the most important climate realist domains, including low-controversial judithcurry.com, have such a low PGSTN that they can be considered blacklisted by Google. Google Search is found to be biased in favor of left/liberal domains and against conservative domains with a confidence of 95%. Further, certain hard-Left domains have such a high PGSTN that their standing raises suspicions that they have been hand-picked for prominent placement. Certain respected conservative...

The jihad against the freedom of speech is advancing rapidly, and most people don’t even know it’s happening.Turkey’s state-run news outlet Anadolu Agency reports: Google’s first page results for searches of terms such as “jihad”, “shariah” and “taqiyya” now return mostly reputable explanations of the Islamic concepts. Taqiyya, which describes the circumstances under which a Muslim can conceal their belief in the face of persecution, is the sole term to feature a questionable website on the first page of results. (emphasis added) “Reputable” according to whom? “Questionable” according to whom?Google has bowed to pressure from Muslims such as Texas imam...

Queries about Islam and Muslims on the world’s largest search engine have been updated amid public pressure to tamp down alleged disinformation from hate groups. However, activists who have worked to bring about the changes say more work remains.

For many years, whenever one Googled “jihad,” Jihad Watch was the first result. This was back in the days when Google’s results were based on the relevance of the subject matter to the search and the popularity of the site. But then Google began engaging in social engineering, attempting to manipulate opinion by changing the results of searches to lead people to sites that offered the perspectives it favored. Then when one searched for “jihad,” Jihad Watch became the second result, and then the fourth, even though our readership was steadily rising; replacing it at the top were Islamic apologetics...

Google is tweaking their search engine in a new effort to combat “fake news” and “hate speech.” “Today, in a world where tens of thousands of pages are coming online every minute of every day, there are new ways that people try to game the system,” proclaimed Ben Gomes, vice president of engineering, in a post on Google’s official blog. “The most high profile of these issues is the phenomenon of ‘fake news,’ where content on the web has contributed to the spread of blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information.” “We’re taking the next step toward continuing...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Need to know who’s running for President of the United States? Don’t Google it. Searching for ‘presidential candidates’ brings up a handy guide above all of the other search results with pictures of candidates with active campaigns. Clicking on a picture brings up searches for the candidates. The only problem is that Republican candidate Donald Trump isn’t included. Neither is Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson. Results are shown for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. As of 5am Wednesday, the results are unchanged.

There’s still time to debate who won the December 15th GOP debate on CNN.But now, we have the data to lock down who won the most Google-able moments.Here’s when voters searched for each candidate throughout the debate: Image Credit: Google TrendsThe peak search moment for a candidate during the debate happened here: Image Credit: Google TrendsThat spike belonged to Ted Cruz at 10:52 PM EST: He did three key things that made those watching — especially likely Republican voters — give him a second look online.1) Cruz doubled down on his insistence that he would not bash Trump: Cruz stuck...

In the hardest places to live in the United States, people spend a lot of time thinking about diets and religion. In the easiest places to live, people spend a lot of time thinking about cameras. This summer, The Upshot conducted an analysis of every county in the country to determine which were the toughest places to live, based on an index of six factors including income, education and life expectancy. Afterward, we heard from Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, who suggested looking at how web searches differ on either end of our index. The results, based on...

Today's news can prompt two very different views of Google, based on the announcement of its free Google Public DNS. In one view, Google is our best friend and a noble public servant. In the other, Google may be the darkest force on the Internet. Which is it? We all must decide. Here's the news: Today Google has begun offering an experimental, but stable, Public Domain Name Server (DNS), described in a Thursday post to Google's Official Blog. The goal is for the new DNS to increase browsing speed and improve Internet security. I have read the technical description and...

Did you folks know that when you search you're FR screen name that you are the first hit on google. Just wonderin.

Google, the massive Internet search engine, is hotly denying that it pulled an anti-Clinton book ad because of the political bias of their Democratic CEO, Eric Schmidt, a supporter of and contributor to Sen. Hillary Clinton. The possible censorship issue recently got the attention of Direct Marketing News. According to World Ahead Publishing, Google removed an ad for author Candace Jackson's book "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine," after originally approving the banner ads which displayed the book's cover or pictures of the Clintons. Some ads also included such statements as that of former White House volunteer...

This is probbly old news, but in case you have not noticied a growing list of internet sites furnish your private information freely. This might not mean anything to some of you, but how safe are you in your home, when anyone can go to Google and type in your phone number and get your name, address and a map to your home. If you are interested other sites to check are: http://www.anywho.com http://www.switchboard.com http://www.whitepages.com http://www.411.com I’m sure there are many more, but each has a web location where your information can be removed.

Take a look at your image in the Internet mirror07:42 PM CDT on Friday, April 16, 2004By TOM MAURSTAD / The Dallas Morning News Have you ever googled yourself, maybe late at night, when nobody else was around? It's OK, you can admit it – everybody does it. It's called "self-googling" – entering your name into the popular search engine to see what hits come up. And thanks to a communications professor at the University of Buffalo who researches online behavior and relationships, self-googling has become the latest mini-craze to sweep through the media and over the Internet. It all...