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> The author may not _like_ that these are trusted, mainstream, popular sources Because that's not what I'm searching for. Even if we all agree all the Russian
by supergirl 5y ago
> The author may not _like_ that these are trusted, mainstream, popular sources
Because that's not what I'm searching for. Even if we all agree all the Russian sites are propaganda, I still want to be able to search through it. It's a political decision by Google to filter out these results. It's not algorithmic because no matter how precise your search query is, you will never get results from certain forbidden domains. Google just directly removed rt.com from results recently, so even if you search for "rt.com" you will not see it. I'm sure they have similar filtering based on certain keywords.
- tomerv 5y agoBut that wasn't the author's search query, it was "Why did Russia invade Ukraine? 2022" - and Putin's speach is not a good answer to the for that, even ignoring the the inherent bias. I specifically didn't call out the complaint about missing results when searching for direct quotes from an article (event thought they are also blatant misinformation), because that indeed is an issue. If I search for some pronoun X then I expect to find a known website with the name X. But if I search for a general term, then the only reasonable way to thing that a search engine can return is websites that fit the consensus view around that topic.
- jrmg 5y agoA Google search for “rt.com”, or ”Russia Today”, returns rt.com as the first result for me. On the google.com home page, starting to type ‘rt’ will have rt.com as the first autocomplete suggestion. Did you try this out?