Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com)

According to a new study reported by The Wall Street Journal, Google's search results tend to lean liberal. "An analysis by online-search marketer CanIRank.com found that 50 recent searches for political terms on Google surfaced more liberal-leaning webpages than conservative ones, as rated by a panel of four people." The Denver Channel reports: "Minimum wage" tended to yield more liberal results, while "does gun control reduce crime" resulted in more conservative ones. Searches for "financial regulation" and "federal reserve" found mostly nonpartisan links. CanIRank used the opinions of four people to determine how liberal or conservative each website was. For 16 percent of the political search terms studied, no right-leaning results showed up at all on the first page of results. CanIRank noted this could be a problem for democracy. A different study found most people click on one of the first five search results. Users rarely move on to the second page. A Google spokesperson said in an email to the WSJ: "From the beginning, our approach to search has been to provide the most relevant answers and results to our users, and it would undermine people's trust in our results, and our company, if we were to change course." According to Google, their results are "determined by algorithms using hundreds of factors" and "reflect the content and information that is available on the internet."

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This is why FAKE NEWS is so prevalent on Facebook

[bit trollent]

Conservatives whine like crazy when their blatantly inaccurate claims aren't reported as "news". Then, by claiming some sort of bias against their fake news, they grant legitimacy to their phony claims. Your fake news isn't real news, republicans. I know that you are too stupid to know the difference, but the rest of us know that you are lying and spreading misinformation. Now, go on and keep whining until google has to pretend your FAKE NEWS is legitimate. Poison the well, assholes. Poison the well.

Reality has a liberal bias...

[gestalt_n_pepper]

And will continue to, regardless of recent election results.

Global warming? Still happening,

Evolution? That too.

Your favorite invisible friend? Maybe not.

Need a better search engine

[AHuxley]

Given the party political support that taints brands in the USA.
How about a search engine that just searches?
No SJW algorithms, no SJW suggestions, no party political staff, just search results for a global community.
Get back to literally search results and if reality is offensive or disparaging that is more to do with decades of policy, party and politics.
A search engine is not a safe space. If the user wants a safe space online, let them configure settings for that on their own devices.