Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
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Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#2Additional reading:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-cl...
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#3This is really concerning, and disappointing if true.
I'd be less concerned if they were also cleaning up autocomplete for the other candidates, but it appears they are not.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#4When I was following the primaries, I preferred Bing's tool to Google's here(just search "primaries" from a US location in either tool). The Google one seemed overly simplistic, especially earlier when there were more potential delegates.
I still tend to search with Google, but Bing at least seems to give a more 'unfiltered' view of your query. Google seems to have a lot more heuristics tweaking things in the background, so I use them for my first search and switch to Bing if I need to see everything for some oddly specific query.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#5Who knows, maybe they got cleared because someone was trolling the suggestion engine, just because there is heavy logical correlation that suggest higher rated search terms should be suggested, that doesn't mean there are not other factors that outweigh it. We don't really know how it works.
I am not being defensive of them, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if it was true, just that they got caught. It is actually pretty fascinating and scary how entangled the Google universe and the Government are, and right or wrong, they are seem to be more invested in their vision of the future more than financial* gains.
* but money is always a little bit a part of it
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#6"Brock Turner Cri" also autofills "cricket" and not anything criminal related. This is likely due to the hoopla around people googling for criminal records and google penalized a bunch of companies for it a while ago.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#7I also don't see electoral fraud and exit poll discrepancies talked about as much anymore:
https://medium.com/@spencergundert/hillary-clinton-and-elect...
An interesting read from April which continues to be relevant and attributable to last Tuesday's primaries as well.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#8If your headline can be answered with "no" then you probably shouldn't post it.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#9If your headline can be answered with "no" then you probably shouldn't post it.
The answer is yes.
Re: Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
#10Its 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.