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Did Google manipulate search results for Hillary Clinton?

6 points| brightball | 9 years ago |m.youtube.com

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[+] rahelzer|9 years ago|reply
Lets think about this analytically for a minute. Why do you use Google? Because it gives you the answers you wanted to find. If Google didn't give us what we wanted to find, we wouldn't use Google.

Google isn't optimized to give you true answers. Or false answers. Google is optimized to give you the answers you wanted to find.

So this joker goes on Google, what does he want to find? He wants to find evidence which coheres with his pre-existing beliefs that Hillary Clinton is only winning because of some giant conspiracy.

So that's exactly what he finds--what he wanted to find--i.e. a whole bunch of results which support what he already believed.

Same thing goes for Creationists, Birthers, UFO nuts, etc. Google will give you what you want to find.

[+] skilled|9 years ago|reply
Hard to believe that "Crooked Hillary" wouldn't come up when you type the word "crooked" into the autocomplete search bar, the term was coined some time ago, and it has been persistently used in both written media, and social media. Some other searches also seem rather suspicious, and I'm leaning towards the fact that there is in fact a "bug" at play here.