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Old 10-25-2016, 05:20 AM
 
Location: U.S.
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Try this test and see how much google sensors our ability to get accurate search information...

On Bing.com, typing " how corrupt is Hillary" results in hundreds of links starting with a Huffington Post article from 2013 that leads with an article on why Hillary should not be the democratic nominee.

On google.com, on the auto complete search feature, google does not finish the phrase or give an option to finish the phrase as the words " how corrupt is Hillary" is entered. Every other possible phrase is suggested but strangely not that one.

On the search results, only a few articles along with ads are linked. The point is that the auto search feature which works so well to complete popular searches oddly goes blank when you enter the phrase "how corrupt is..." no help from google.
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Old 10-25-2016, 05:23 AM
 
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So use Bing, Waaahhh autocorrect , are the results still there?


Lies

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+...hrome&ie=UTF-8
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Old 10-25-2016, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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Google is a simple search engine without the capability of being biased. It relies on prior data from numbers of previous searches to fill in the blank. If you want it to give you "Hillary", you need to search for "How corrupt is Hillary" fifteen or twenty million times and it should pop right up after that. Since there have obviously not been that many searches for that subject, it doesn't swing your way.

Hope this helps. Oh - the word is "censors", BTW.
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Old 10-25-2016, 06:39 AM
 
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Google is a simple search engine without the capability of being biased. It relies on prior data from numbers of previous searches to fill in the blank. If you want it to give you "Hillary", you need to search for "How corrupt is Hillary" fifteen or twenty million times and it should pop right up after that. Since there have obviously not been that many searches for that subject, it doesn't swing your way.

Hope this helps. Oh - the word is "censors", BTW.
It can and has been shown to be biased. Google has been caught several times manipulating results depending on the political topic. I do not know if that is the case with the OP, but several years back they were caught manipulating results for climate change information concerning site searches, and various topics such as Climategate.

OP, there are alternative search engines out there that provide search results that differ in how they produce information from Google and yes... we live in the days of propaganda, you have to be diligent.
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Old 10-25-2016, 06:44 AM
 
Location: Keller, TX
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Google is a simple search engine without the capability of being biased.
Haha, hard to tell whether a) you really are this naive or b) you think others reading this will really be this naive.
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Old 10-25-2016, 06:50 AM
 
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Yawn, this was covered ages ago and here is Google's response - which of course the OP and others wont believe
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Old 10-25-2016, 06:53 AM
 
Location: zooland 1
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Google is a simple search engine without the capability of being biased. It relies on prior data from numbers of previous searches to fill in the blank. If you want it to give you "Hillary", you need to search for "How corrupt is Hillary" fifteen or twenty million times and it should pop right up after that. Since there have obviously not been that many searches for that subject, it doesn't swing your way.

Hope this helps. Oh - the word is "censors", BTW.
Wrong...

The search parameters can absolutely be set...

Google is in the bag for Hillary and like other media outlets modifies it's information

Try other search engines for a balance of results

I think Google while very convenient is evil in its manipulation of others...why..BECAUSE it does it in the dark
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Old 10-25-2016, 07:21 AM
 
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Google is a simple search engine without the capability of being biased. It relies on prior data from numbers of previous searches to fill in the blank. If you want it to give you "Hillary", you need to search for "How corrupt is Hillary" fifteen or twenty million times and it should pop right up after that. Since there have obviously not been that many searches for that subject, it doesn't swing your way.

Hope this helps. Oh - the word is "censors", BTW.
Propaganda.
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Old 10-25-2016, 07:22 AM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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Wrong...

The search parameters can absolutely be set...

Google is in the bag for Hillary and like other media outlets modifies it's information

Try other search engines for a balance of results

I think Google while very convenient is evil in its manipulation of others...why..BECAUSE it does it in the dark
According to the IT guys I run around with, it could be manipulated by building a bot to constantly search for a specific term, but it's a lot of work for very little return. Google is not a media outlet, BTW.

Y'all believe what you want. It'll all be over in a couple of weeks.
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Old 10-25-2016, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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Yawn, this was covered ages ago and here is Google's response - which of course the OP and others wont believe
The ones who need to read this won't, since it conflicts with what they already believe. That's how Trump got nominated in the first place.
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