If you type just "hillary clinton", Benghazi is in the autocomplete, so this seems like cherry picking to serve a narrative to me.
Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
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Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#12I'm glad this guy knows so much about how search engines work. He should start one, it sounds easy! He just has to map each query to the single, unchanging answer that's the same for everybody!
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#13Its hard to believe Google would do that. There is so much risk of being exposed. As an alternate hypothetical - A Google engineer who has knowledge of their internal systems could suggest a means of external manipulation, that would accomplish the same goal, without the risk.
With conflicts of interest like this http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working... it's easy to believe Google would do that.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#14This could also be neighborhood or search history or social network related, no?
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#15Additional reading: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-cl...
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#16If your headline can be answered with "no" then you probably shouldn't post it.
episodes like this are the most evident reasons why we need a distributed internet search engine in our future
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#17Its hard to believe Google would do that. There is so much risk of being exposed. As an alternate hypothetical - A Google engineer who has knowledge of their internal systems could suggest a means of external manipulation, that would accomplish the same goal, without the risk.
With conflicts of interest like this http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working... it's easy to believe Google would do that.
Also Google may have violated ethics rules with its hiring practices of Obama Administration Staff.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2016/04/29/if-you-want-to-work-...
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#18If you type just "hillary clinton", Benghazi is in the autocomplete, so this seems like cherry picking to serve a narrative to me.
Very cherry picked data. +crime seems to be supressed by Google, won't autocomplete for other First Name Last Name +crime searches.
Sensational and speculative
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#19It is interesting that this got removed from HN's homepage. But I'm sure there is a good reason as the moderators seem to do a great job.
Edit: maybe I don't understand the ranking algorithm. I saw this at the bottom of the best first page. 15 minutes later and I can't find it in the first few pages. But only 24 votes so maybe it doesn't qualify for the secondary pages?
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#20These claims are pretty flimsy. For one thing, Yahoo's search engine is Bing, so it's fallacious to say that two of three search engines yielded the same result, and that result is thus more valid or accurate than that of the dissenting engine. Further, if Google did scrub results, they didn't do a very complete job, as they're more than happy to suggest "hillary clinton email" and plenty of other negative terms. I also suspect that Google's search suggestions algorithm is a bit more involved than "tally the frequency of entire search queries and return the most common ones."
In a wider sense, it's a bit of a leap to think that Eric Schmidt has direct control over Google searches. There would have to be a chain of contacts leading from him to someone in the engineering department, or at least a few developers who built the "scrub sensitive terms from the suggestion list" feature. Surely they're not _all_ working for Clinton. Or surely this power would have been abused other times in the past. It's just so much more plausible that this is a complete coincidence than that there's some kind of Google-based conspiracy to install Hillary Clinton as a dictator by forcing people to type the entire phrase "hillary clinton indictment" into a search engine before they can have their crazy beliefs validated.