Google is Intentionally Manipulating First-Page News-Related Search Results.
29 2016-11-30 by BeckonedLizard
First off, sorry for the shitty screenshots and formatting.
Let's start with the first page of results when you search "racist drudge report articles".
Seems pretty normal right? A nice smattering of results, some clearly related to the query, some not.
Next, Let's go with a search of "racist fox news articles" Again, seems pretty normal.
Now, on to the weird shit. Let's search "racist washington post articles"
Well that's weird. Every single result is from the Washington Post, where, if you recall, the exact same query concerning Drudge or Fox returned a veritable cornucopia of results from multiple websites.
Surely this can't be a trend, though, right? Wrong. A similar search for the Huffington Post shows the exact same results, with the small exception of the final result.
Is this indicative of a larger trend? I'm not sure. I simply noticed this oddity, and I didn't have enough time to research it further. If someone wants to look for other trends, I fully support that effort.
2 comments
1 X_Irradiance 2016-11-30
something like 'controversial search term exclusivity privileges'.