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Its not you, the search engines have become weaponised. The most recent example, Sue Gray, a top British civil servant until a few months ago would have her ca
by Terry_Roll 5y ago
Its not you, the search engines have become weaponised.
The most recent example, Sue Gray, a top British civil servant until a few months ago would have her career controversies visible in search results when searching for her. Since it was announced she would carry out an investigation into party's at 10 Downing Streets, its become impossible to see her career controversies in search results now.
Eli Pariser also hilighted changes going on with Google back in 2011 as you can see from this talk, but I think was just the start.
https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...
IMO, the search engines have now got a lot worse with what they show in search results like the Sue Grey example above.
Society is becoming like Fahrenheit 451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
- mbg721 5y agoIs the instance of Sue Gray related at all to the strength of English libel law? When UK controversies get buried, that often seems to be the reason.
- Terry_Roll 5y agoSue Gray has done other reports, when I think of her I think of 50 shades of grey.
- kevinmchugh 5y agoI think there's a recency bias for Google search results, that cuts both ways. I searched "Eric Clapton" and "Neil Young" and both pages have a mix of expected results (Wikipedia, social media, official website, Spotify) and news/tabloid/opinion pieces about their recent covid takes. I've certainly had searches in the past where I couldn't find the Wikipedia link because there was too much noise about a recent controversy.
- wholinator2 5y agoI would like to highlight that there are currently other search engine options. We can chose to use duck duck go or even bing. Both of which I have never blatantly experienced things being hidden.