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Trump Supporters on Reddit Think Google Is Rigging Autocomplete for Hillary
- kofejnik 10y agoI'm getting the same exact result: 'Crooked Hill' gives 'Crooked Hillary Bernie' and 'Crooked Hill Post Office'; while on Bing 'Crook' gives the expected 'Crooked Hillary' ('Croo' is overrun by local Dutch suggestions)
- tuna-piano 10y agoI get the same results as well. According to Google(1), it's due to the low search volume of the term "crooked hillary". Obviously, not sure how their algorithm works, but this seems a bit suspicious due to the search volume seen on Google Trends (vs the much less searched "crooked hillary bernie" term that does show up): https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=crooked%20hillary%2C%20crooked%20hillary%20bernie&date=1%2F2016%2012m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B5 https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=crooked%20hillary%2C... (1): http://searchengineland.com/google-crooked-hillary-251152 http://searchengineland.com/google-crooked-hillary-251152
- minimaxir 10y agoI don't believe /r/the_donald is a good source for unbiased experiments.
- elsewhen 10y ago/r/the_donald was the source of the discovery, but you can go verify the accusations yourself.
- tuna-piano 10y agoInterestingly enough, to get information about this controversy, I unconsciously queried Google Search in my Google Chrome browser. I then learned more about it through Google News. Given the power they have over information, they have a serious responsibility to ensure neutrality. I hope this is just a normal technical issue and not fowl play, although based on the evidence, I am definitely suspicious.
- MaysonL 10y agoSearching for "crooked donald trump" pulls up a number of substantive articles. E.g. https://ourfuture.org/20160601/crooked-donald-trump https://ourfuture.org/20160601/crooked-donald-trump