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Google manipulating search results (1 Viewer)

I remember when it was a big deal because somebody asked President Bush a question that wasn't an attack...

 
Businesses pay lots of money to be at or near the top of page 1 of searches. No reason why the same can't be done to bury search results.

eta: I didn't read the article, and usually don't unless it's pasted in the OP.

 
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EYLive said:
Businesses pay lots of money to be at or near the top of page 1 of searches. Why is this news?

eta: I didn't read the article, and usually don't unless it's pasted in the OP.
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Sorry, the article kind of sucked.  It pretty much just links to a YouTube that was trending.  To sum it up, they are manipulating the auto complete.

When you type "Hillary Clinton cr" instead of auto completing to "criminal" it says "crime reform".   All the other search engines have "criminal".  They compared to when you type "Bernie Sanders so" it auto completes to "socialist" and when they typed "Donald Trump r" it says racist.

Then they explain how she is paying some top Google exec to help her campaign.

 
Put "Donal Trump ban" into yahoo or bing. First result is bankruptcy.

Put that same phrase into Google and the first results are banner and banana.

 
Walking Boot said:
Add another to the list of people that think posting one link "proves" that another thing is thoroughly disproven.
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I love this quote from the article: "Apparently, Google has a policy of not suggesting that customers do searches on people's crimes."

 
Walking Boot said:
Add another to the list of people that think posting one link "proves" that another thing is thoroughly disproven.
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:lmao:

Got to Google and type in "Hitler cri" and see what happens. This isn't about stifling searches because one can still search hillary Clinton crimes. 

Occam's Razor, yo.

 
Everybody talks about debunking these stories but nobody ever refers to the original story as bunk anymore.   If i say bunk you probably think I'm like 90 unless you watched the wire recently.  It's a great word.  Bring back bunk.   It's time. 

 
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Lutherman2112 said:
Suckers.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/10/11903028/hillary-clinton-google-debunked
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Unfortunately that does not debunk anything. Their entire argument is based on a few select examples cherry picked to make their point.

Google Dylann Roof cri

Google Osama Bin Laden cr

Freakin Vox. They are about half a point ahead of The Onion and Gawker in terms of credibility. 

For those of you too lazy to read the Vox article, here is their argument as to why "Hillary Clinton cri" does not auto complete:

Choose any famous American who has been accused of a serious crime and Google their name followed by the letters "cri," and in no case does Google suggest the word "crimes." That’s true even of people like Kaczynski and Madoff, who are famous only because they faced prosecution for serious crimes.

Apparently, Google has a policy of not suggesting that customers do searches on people's crimes. I have no inside knowledge of why it runs its search engine this way. Maybe Google is just uncomfortable with having an algorithm suggesting that people search for other people's crimes.
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Obviously based on the two examples listed above in my post this is false. 

 
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tommyboy said:
We give all this power to unaccountable companies, eventually they abuse it
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Ths is why I have invested all of my money into encyclopedia britannica making a comeback.

 
I wonder if in the same meeting when Google decided to create a policy to not encourage customers to search for crimes, they decided to green light the Rick Santorum gay sex froth.

 
When I enter into Google the following:

"george bush cri"

I get:

- george bush cricket

- george bush criminal minds

The second one pulls up results about Bush and Cheney war crimes.

When I enter:

"hillary clinton cri"

I get:

- hillary clinton crime reform

- hillary clinton crisis

- hillary clinton crime bill 1994

- hillary clinton criminal prosecution

The last one has results about Hillary being under criminal investigation (which she is).

 
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So we all agree this was total nonsense and we can move on to the next crazy conspiracy theory right?

 
I would also think the natural way people would be searching for Clinton's transgressions would be "Hillary Clinton emails" or something like that. "Hillary crimes" seems very forced. If "Hillary Clinton em-" doesn't bring up emails, but "Hillary Clinton emu" and "emulsion" I'd agree there's a problem.

 
wdcrob said:
Took almost 15 minutes to debunk this time.  Progress, I guess?
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It's amazing that every single negative thing about Hilary has been debunked. I guess she's perfect?

 
Type "Hillary Clinton Inv" into Google. Investigation somehow never comes up. Lmao @ anyone believing that's not a top search to where it would suggest it.

 
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