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Try searching for "january 6" on bing for some insight in how results are both manipulated as well as censored: https://www.bing.com/search?q=january+6 https:/
by the_third_wave 4y ago
Try searching for "january 6" on bing for some insight in how results are both manipulated as well as censored:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=january+6 https://www.bing.com/search?q=january+6
Once you get past page 6 of the 96 200 000 results they keep on repeating the same results, page after page, with either a Guardian (January 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing over …) or (every now and then) Yahoo (Jan. 6 hearings to resume following bombshell revelation about …) article on top of the page. The rest of the page is largely identical, page upon page until it comes to page 32 (307-316 of 96 200 000 results). Whatever you tell it to do beyond that page it will always serve page 32 with that Guardian article on top and the other - similarly slanted - results below it.
I don't know whether this is just another example of typical Microsoft incompetence in that they make their meddling with the results so incredibly obvious or whether they're just telling visitors this is what they should read and nothing else but it does show these search engines are as unreliable when it comes to politically sensitive topics as e.g. Wikipedia is.
- Melatonic 4y agoThat is not how it is behaving at all for me
- the_third_wave 4y agoWhat do you see for that query? Are you logged in? Which country? Which browser? Here: Not logged in, Sweden, Firefox on Linux/Firefox on Android. Same results every time, on both platforms. I took screenshots for pages 6-15, compare these to what you see and let us know in what way your results are different: https://imgur.com/a/QGT044T https://imgur.com/a/QGT044T
- pessimizer 4y agoDDG draws at least the vast majority of its results from Bing, and does the same thing. Also, all of their news results seem to be links to MSN and Yahoo versions of stories that were published on other websites. I don't know that what you're seeing has anything to do with politics. For example, I just searched for "dog food nutrition," (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dog+food+nutrition https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dog+food+nutrition) and https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/soy-in-dog-food-what-you-need-to-know/ https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/soy-in-dog-food-... Was the 14th result, and also the 36th, 68th, and 87th. It is also the 108th result, where it first starts topping the page, and from then on it's at the top of the rest of the pages, which are repetitions, so 128th, 148th, 168th, unto infinity. I just counted this result because it was topping the repeated page of results, but all of the other results were repeating arbitrarily until it was down to the same 20 results repeating. I'm tempted to sum the number of appearances of every result. I'm not sure there are more than 40. Why "dog food nutrition?" I figured there would be a lot of hits. I was wrong. ----- edit: https://www.bing.com/search?q=dog+food+nutrition https://www.bing.com/search?q=dog+food+nutrition https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/soy-in-dog-food-what-you-need-to-know/ https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/soy-in-dog-food-... 22nd result, 31st, 45th, 59th, 73rd, and plenty from there on out. https://www.petmd.com/dog/nutrition/can-dogs-eat-peaches https://www.petmd.com/dog/nutrition/can-dogs-eat-peaches 10th result, 20th, 34th, 48th, 51st, 66th, 70th, 88th, 93rd... ... and the pages start repeating from page 9 on with our old friend "Soy in Dog Food?" on top.
- int_19h 4y agoYup, it definitely reproduces, but it doesn't seem to be restricted to political queries.
- perryizgr8 4y agoReally strange behavior. For me the pages seem to be all identical after page 2.
- the_third_wave 4y ago[flagged]