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Is Google searches slanted?

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September 02, 2018, 11:37 AM
downtownv
Is Google searches slanted?
Try this:
Type in Hillary Clinton is a.... notice your continued drop-down choice options

Now do the same thing on Bing and Duckgoduck

Vastly different completion of the hypothetical sentence!


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September 02, 2018, 01:58 PM
bcereuss
Does the pope wear a funny hat?
September 02, 2018, 02:00 PM
ensigmatic
Why does anybody still use Google?



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September 02, 2018, 02:03 PM
Skins2881
quote:
Originally posted by bcereuss:
Does the pope wear a funny hat?


He's wearing one every time he spots a bear shitting in the woods.



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September 02, 2018, 02:13 PM
parabellum
he he

Yeah. Slanted as shit.

he he
September 02, 2018, 02:17 PM
nhracecraft
Yes they is... Wink


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September 02, 2018, 03:13 PM
mutedblade
Bastards! But we already knew that.


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September 02, 2018, 03:14 PM
mr kablammo
First search result for 'I love the NRA' is "I own eight guns and still hate the NRA".

So yes, gulagle is fucked.

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September 02, 2018, 03:15 PM
mbinky
I'll believe Google is on the up-and-up when I see an honest FBI agent ride in on his unicorn, white hat and all.
September 02, 2018, 03:25 PM
.38supersig
As for me, I wouldn't touch anything that says Google (or Android) with a thirty foot pole at night underwater. Not just no, but F___ NO!

I know exactly what they can do with their Supercookies! Mad



September 02, 2018, 04:09 PM
Sig209
of course

how is this even a question ?

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September 02, 2018, 04:29 PM
oddball




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September 02, 2018, 05:08 PM
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September 02, 2018, 08:01 PM
21bubba
quote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
I'll believe Google is on the up-and-up when I see an honest FBI agent ride in on his unicorn, white hat and all.

Where would a guy get a white hat for a unicorn?



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September 02, 2018, 08:48 PM
Ozarkwoods
Slanted big time! So it Twitter, Facebook.


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September 02, 2018, 11:29 PM
46and2
Broadly, sure. Every search engine is, to varying degrees, intentionally and unintentionally.

However, IIRC, those Predictive Search Phrases that come up as you type are managed/edited separately from the Search Results themselves because people were gaming them to say funny things, so just because something doesn't show up in that list doesn't mean it won't return those search results for you, it just won't predict them as examples of common search phrases. But it's been a while since I've dug into it all.
September 03, 2018, 08:52 AM
Scooter123
To a large extent these type of searches are based on the preponderance of previous searches.

So, if all of us, (the entire firearms community), were to do a search 5 times a day using the term "hillary clinton is a Felon" after 6 months or so that could be the first item to come up in the listing.

Unfortunately as soon as those bat shit liberals at Google caught on to what we were doing they would set their software to Exclude that specific search phrase from the history for searches related to this singularly EVIL person.


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September 03, 2018, 09:07 AM
smschulz
quote:
Is Google searches slanted?

Yes, they "are". Eek
September 03, 2018, 12:15 PM
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