First up, Business Insider:
Google reportedly manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favor big businessThey are also reportedly blacklisting sites but not ours so no worries. What was Churchhill's line about the croc.?
Additionally, Google is said to manipulate auto-complete results to remove sensitive subjects - including abortion and immigration.
The tech giant has denied manipulating Google Search results for years though various publications have variously reported on as much
Google's ubiquitous search engine, Google Search, is the backbone of the tech giant's business.
In many ways, Google Search is the backbone of the modern internet - the way much of the web is sorted and organized and located. Given how crucial it is to daily internet use for billions of people around the world, it's a particularly ripe target for manipulation.
Google denies doing as much, and insists that Google Search is built on algorithms and data gleaned from use.
But a new Wall Street Journal investigation found that Google manipulated search algorithms in some worrying ways, including prioritizing large businesses over smaller ones, removing autocomplete results that involve sensitive topics like immigration and abortion, and even outright blacklisting some websites.
In one such change to Google's search algorithms, the service guided search users to more prominent businesses over lesser-known ones, the Journal reported. That change reportedly helped to boost Amazon's store in search results....MUCH MORE
"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely."Meanwhile at MarketWatch:
—via Quote Investigator
Google could be your wealth manager one day if lawmakers sign off
Recently:
"How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results" (GOOG; EVIL)
"Google will offer checking accounts, says it won’t sell the data" (GOOG)
"Google’s increasing practice of directing search traffic towards its own travel businesses has adversely impacted [Expedia and TripAdvisor]" (EXPE; TRIP; GOOG)
Media: "News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1B"
Knowledge@Wharton: "What’s Fueling the Smart City Backlash?"
I know, I know!!!
The oppressive boot of corporate tyranny smashing into the face of humanity. Forever?
[apologies to the Orwell literary estate]
No?
Let's try K@W:...
And that's just the last six days.
