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It's got nothing to do with Russia, the bogeyman of the American nation.
Both Sergey and Larry Page are Jews.
Go figure.

By the way, you should really watch RT News to crawl out of your bubble.

What I find amazing, and it's proven time and time again is that atheists not only don't appear to have a heart of love, understanding, and co-operation, and infact they have a heart full of rage and hate for some reason which shows in their vulgar speech;
but also atheists are unable to examine evidence, unable to reason, and unable to use their sense of intellect and logic by examining history.

Of course, Atheists aren't the only ones guilty, but ignorant people of all faiths, including Muslims, who's heart is deaf, dumb, and blind, and unable to use their sense of reason and logic.

No matter how many times it's explained from an anthropological and historical view, and examining the normal age of marriage even only 100 or 200 years ago, some people just can't escape their localised bubble.

• A highly respected sheikh/imaam explaining the marriage of Muhammad and Aisha.
• A former Buddhist who became Muslim explaining the marriage of Muhammad to Aisha;
• A Christian (or former Christian?) explaining this matter according to the Biblical view;
• A former orthodox Christian who became a Muslim imaam and cleric explaining the marriage of Muhammad and Aisha;

Because duckduckgo don't bubble you and track you.
They are also popular because you can hack the code.

I haven't used google for over 5 years, and I particularly love ddg's instant answers and the fact they utilise OpenStreetMap and Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, etc.

"The crush of news sites today is almost overwhelming."

Call it off-topic, but if you are overwhelmed by the "crush of news sites", then you're probably doing something wrong. Virtually all of the news in the US can be summed up as "MSM". A couple of liberal families own most of the "news" organizations. An ultra-conservative Aussie owns the best-known alternative. There are more main-stream sites available, but most people don't want to hear about them.

In my news feeds, I have two Russian, two Chinese, one Indian, one Kurd, one Arab, one Israeli, 4 British, one Australian, and a mishmash of US MSM. I scan over the MSM, choosing to click on one now and then. Being a conservative at heart, I click Fox more often than I click Hearst or Turner links, but TBH, I don't like Fox much. For the real news, I scroll on down to the "foreign" sources.

Also in my feeds, I have things like Scientific American, Project Censored and - oh, what's this? SLASHDOT?!?! How did that get in there?

Think outside the box that Main Stream Media tries to put you in.

On a related note - http://dontbubble.us/

Maybe I should have advised you to think outside the bubble, instead?

DuckDuckGo and the like made a big deal about the big players doing search engine bubbling. Depending on who you are, you get different results.

I don't use Facebook enough to comment on that, but I'd imagine the echo chamber would be deafening.

if it becomes necessary to duplicate results

two people searching on google for the identical search term will likely NOT get the same results

Oh, and that "Filter Bubble"? You'll take it with you, everywhere you go.

Your direct experience of your environment and reality will be "enhanced" - read this as "mediated", through machine curators, you will hardly think to question....

Fuck Google. Fuck Glass.

The Internet is a brainwashing device.

If the advertising becomes really bubbled I can see an issue where attractive people are shown healthy products and ugly people are shown unhealthy products because that's what their respective profiles are probably going to indicate that they want... It's like the Search Engine Bubble (http://dontbubble.us/) - except for advertising.

This trend is obviously unhealthy...

The term is "search engine Filter Bubble" -- see the nice introduction at http://dontbubble.us/ (admittedly focussed on avoiding personalisation).
If you use a meta search engine that doesn't collect personal information, such as DuckDuckGo.com, you can escape that problem.

Seriously, DuckDuckGo has the friendliest privacy policy around. They don't track you or bubble you. They run a TOR exit enclave, and if you're already using TOR, you can reach their search engine without exiting the onion by using their hidden service.

And a link... http://duckduckgo.com/
ddg.gg is a short url that redirects...

They have sites explaining how they don't track or "bubble" you:
http://donttrack.us/
http://dontbubble.us/

Ditto and if someone is in a position to complain it would be Mozilla since integrated search should be a browser feature, not a website feature, and they aren't complaining, because it's stupid.

Blubbled search is not even a feature I want, much less expand.

This is the very consequence many people imagined the moment Google announced this. For clear examples of how Search Plus pushes Google+ over relevant results, read this article by Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand. Some of the examples include popular music artists, like Katy Perry, who has one of the most popular Facebook pages but doesn't appear in the Search Plus results because she doesn't have a Google+ account. How is that delivering the most relevant results, which was the original goal of the Google search engine? In fact, Google's search engine is becoming less useful at delivering relevant results compared to alternatives, with the major example in that link being a search for "gold price" on Google versus Wolfram Alpha: Google gives you a big, brown box of sponsored links, while Wolfram Alpha gives you a simple price chart.

The biggest reason, in my opinion, to dislike Search Plus is that it continues the trend of search engine bubbling that is filtering the content you see on the Internet today, possibly limiting you from seeing opposing information that might change a currently held perspective.

There is an interesting TED talk about this: http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ted-talk

Duck Duck Go made this website to reaise awareness of bubbling: http://dontbubble.us/

Check out http://dontbubble.us/

Wow what a load of bird poop. Let's look at their items:

Search for climate change. Their example uses Bing, which powers DuckDuckGo. Wikipedia result is prominently in both sets of results. The only "bubble" is the one they drew over the results.

Search for Barack Obama News preferences existed before the internet. It's called a subscription. Online aggregators give you a much better chance to see alternatives if you click through to find them. I can now easily read AlJazzera for example to compare against what the NYT says on some subject. Again, right below the artificially drawn bubble there's similar results.

which means other stuff gets demoted (effectively filtered). Yeah, like two items down... really buried.

Search for Egypt Different Ad, different result count... these searches were probably not done at the same time. Nice, uh, filter-bubbling of your evidence.

Unfortunately, it's not easy to pop your filter bubble, Yeah, you only have the option of (1) logging out, (2) turning off web history, (3) browsing in anonymous mode, (4) using anonymizing search proxies that pre-date DuckDuckGo by many years, (5) toggling the new Google switch for personalization. Clearly the only solution is to use a new search engine which repackages a not-logged-in Bing search.

Other items are pretty much hearsay -- we don't know what else was or wasn't on the page, just one new item they wanted to highlight.

How to solve filter bubbles in practice: Look at 3-4 results instead of just the first one. You'll need that on DuckDuckGo too, since otherwise you only get exposed to one opinion too -- that of the search engine's creator.

I've pretty much switched to http://duckduckgo.com/

Check out http://dontbubble.us/ and http://donttrack.us/. This would be an example of bubbling, btw.

And if you don't find results (I'd say Google has better results about 20-30% of the time) !g brings that search term to Google.