Almost 40% more left and far left results than neutral, right, or far right.
A search for "Republican Platform", for example, the first 8 results include one site with the text, and then 7 left wing sites critical of it.
For other controversial keywords like “minimum wage”, “abortion,” “NAFTA”, “Iraq war”, “campaign finance reform”, “global warming”, “marijuana legalization”, and “tpp”, no right-leaning websites are to be found among the top results.
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Top search results are broadly perceived as being the most accurate and authoritative by members of the public with the first five search results accounting for an estimated 67% of all clicks and the first three results alone accounting for over 55% of all clicks.
In their 2015 study, Robert Epstein and Ronald Robertson concluded that the order of search results can have a big impact on voter behavior — and in the event of a close election, this effect could even be profound enough to determine the outcome of the election.
I believe it, have noticed it for myself for quite a while. Switched to Bing, seemed to work OK. Edge browser default is also pretty biased it seems. Haven't tried DuckDuckGo much. What does Patnet recommend?
Google search: American Inventors List across shows some 90% of "American Inventors" are black. Amazing.
Oh, it must be that Google thinks "American" somehow means "African American." Let's test that: Google search: famous American criminals List across shows a mix of races roughly proportional to population mix.
I find duckduckgo to be good-to-acceptable. only thing I use from Google anymore is street view. OpenStreetMaps needs a street view service. I've been thinking about how to do this
A search for "Republican Platform", for example, the first 8 results include one site with the text, and then 7 left wing sites critical of it.
http://www.canirank.com/blog/analysis-of-political-bias-in-internet-search-engine-results/