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> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place. Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place. Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
Your claim that the search engine should show results which indicate that there was no systematic election fraud, is a wishful thinking that you don’t want people to believe in it, not a good decision making regarding what search engines should display.
Personally, I don't think this was a complete/valid test - Yandex could be censoring other things. The input test data primarily covered things that would fit a specific narrative, not one for the 'other side'. Has anyone done a more complete test?
I expect any search engine worth using to filter out spam and low effort crap. Yandex does neither.
> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place. Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
Really, you consider Putin's stated reasons to be the actual reasons for the invasion? And the linked article in that paragraph is just a pile of misinformation (even calling it subjective would be a complement).
> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place. Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
That query is biased to begin with. Let’s say I want to understand the flat earth arguments. Should the search engine fill my feed with “earth is not flat” when I’m trying to search for “proof that earth is flat”. This is different from searching “is earth flat” which is an attempt to discover the truth. Your claim that the search engine should show results which indicate that there was no systematic election fraud,…
What should it do? Article titled "There is no proof that the earth is flat" also satisfies the query completely from a keyword perspective, although not from a semantic. But if there is no actual proof that earth is flat, any article claiming there is would satisfy the query only from a keyword perspective but technically not semantically. It is a good question.
> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place. Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
If I type "the daily stormer" (a very unique name which corresponds to something very specific, i.e. the website for the far-right online newspaper by that name), I expect to find that thing in the first 5 results. That's not the case with Google; it's just not there at all. You have articles from other papers talking about it, you've got a wikipedia page talking about it, you've got sites like the ADL and the SPLC talking about it, but not the actual thing itself. Bing, Yahoo, Yandex all return it as the first result.
> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place. Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
A search engine should return what I'm searching. If I type "the daily stormer" (a very unique name which corresponds to something very specific, i.e. the website for the far-right online newspaper by that name), I expect to find that thing in the first 5 results. That's not the case with Google; it's just not there at all. You have articles from other papers talking about it, you've got a wikipedia page talking abou…
When I “search” for something, I am searching for it. I mean, it’s the definition of the word “search” for crying out loud. Somehow over time this idea of a “search engine” got perverted into something that either tries to predict what I don’t know I really want or what someone else thinks I need to see.
> No search engine, not even the Russian based Yandex, returned an objective article that included the reasons laid out in Putin's invasion speech. [...] The level of disinformation I observed for this test was terrifying. Based on what I saw, I don't believe it is possible for an uninformed person to learn the actual reasons Russia invaded from a web search on any search engine. Really, you consider Putin's stated r…