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There's an interesting case here of do you manipulate search algorithms for political reasons, or political alignment? The brand value of a lot of left wing br

by zpeti 7y ago

There's an interesting case here of do you manipulate search algorithms for political reasons, or political alignment? The brand value of a lot of left wing brands is higher without question (and I imagine they have more links too), so do you show them more, because, hey, it's just an algorithm... Or do you have to start showing an equal number of left vs right publications? Also, who says what's left or right? How left? How right?

nicoburns 7y ago
> who says what's left or right? How left? How right? It seems pretty pointless trying to adjudicate this. If not for any other reason that what is considered the centre changes over time (e.g. it moved to the left in the post-war years, and back to right in the Reagan/Thatcher years). Furthermore, these changes are arguably a good thing.