#search manipulation

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Research: Google Search Bias Flipped Seats for Democrats in Midterms | Breitbart

New research from psychologist and search engine expert Dr. Robert Epstein shows that biased Google searches had a measurable impact on the 2018 midterm elections, pushing tens of thousands of votes towards the Democrat candidates in three key congressional races, and potentially millions more in races across the country.

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Why you should stop using Google as your search engine

I switched from Google (pretty much completely, more on that in a later blog post). Many people use Google, I don’t... anymore. Currently google dominates the search engine market, but I kind of hope they don’t or they should make some changes. Here are some reasons that compelled me to switch :

Privacy

Google protecting your privacy, HA nope ! They rely on your data...

A common rule of thumb is anything in which you don’t pay for the product, you are the product. Google, as a whole, tracks your location, records your search data, reads your emails, logs your browsing history, keeps your purchasing records. You can reclassify all this as stalking, snooping, following and its criminal as well as psychotic. I think all this doesn't need any further explanation

Manipulation

We all know that instant answer feature of Google right, you put in your search query and you instantly get an answer. Well ... Google stole that feature from DuckDuckGo. And they're doing this whole instant answer thing wrong. Instant answers should be only for information that is factual, historical, calculations, biographical facts, etc. Everything else should be left to search results.

When i typed in “is google evil“ on both Google and DuckDuckGo, here’s what came up

Google is clearly misleading you with their answer box. In the box it brings up a Wikipedia article about Google’s old motto (back when they respected your privacy)

Stack Overflow

This is a tech blog, I write about tech because I’m a developer and generally interested in tech. So Stack Overflow is my alternative Reddit for development.

DuckDuckGo has integration with Stack Overflow. Enough said, I’m convinced

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Google Search Manipulating Keywords Replacing Queries With Trump

This is a good example how Google is manipulating search keywords and key phrases. Dump Democrats is manipulated to return Dump Trump results. Someone...