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Here's an easy test case on a topic which is HEAVILY modified by Google. There are many such cases Google distorts searches but the following query is purely fo

Here's an easy test case on a topic which is HEAVILY modified by Google. There are many such cases Google distorts searches but the following query is purely for illustration of the problem because it is so obvious. 1. Search Google for "ukrainian who shot his commanding officer" without quotes 2. Google serves me nothing but MSM articles of Russian this or that. The word Russian wasn't even in my search string. 3. Add the Google operator MINUS SIGN Russia 4. Results: a) Policeman feared Chris Kaba would kill, court told b) Media: Russian Repeated Offender Kills Five More His ... c) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena ... d) Ukrainian Galician Army e) Article from 2017 entitled Killed Defense Intelligence Officer Was "The First Donetsk Cyborg" f) Shots fired at car carrying Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's ... 5. Go to yandex.com and search the original query 6. It comes up on Yandex immediately with the original query

TeaBrain 2y ago
Where did you get the idea for that query in the first place?
- greenavocado 2y ago
  One of my interests is war photography
eviks 2y ago
This is such a bad example: the yandex results have 3,4 with "russian" in the title and in general the same "msm" article list And its first two results are for a dead site and a deleted article, so fine user-experience reasons to exclude? And the google results have a link to a reddit story such accident on the first page
dr_kiszonka 2y ago
The only relevant result I get on Yandex is a website, which supposedly is a Russian propaganda outlet. Maybe that is why it is not showing up on Google, and isn't necessarily a distortion? https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politnavigator-bias/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politnavigator-bias/
- adamrezich 2y ago
  Yandex is indeed a Russian company. But do you really need to go to media bias fact check dot com—everyone's confirmed universal source of absolute truth, of course—to learn that?
  - dr_kiszonka 2y ago
    I went there to check the result, not Yandex. Would you recommend any good alternatives to the media bias website I used?
  - bradjohnson 2y ago
    You missed the mark here. He was talking about the Russian state propaganda site that the GP was trying to find on google: "PolitNavigator".

TeaBrain 2y ago

Where did you get the idea for that query in the first place?

greenavocado 2y ago
One of my interests is war photography

eviks 2y ago

This is such a bad example: the yandex results have 3,4 with "russian" in the title and in general the same "msm" article list And its first two results are for a dead site and a deleted article, so fine user-experience reasons to exclude? And the google results have a link to a reddit story such accident on the first page

dr_kiszonka 2y ago

The only relevant result I get on Yandex is a website, which supposedly is a Russian propaganda outlet. Maybe that is why it is not showing up on Google, and isn't necessarily a distortion? https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politnavigator-bias/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politnavigator-bias/

adamrezich 2y ago
Yandex is indeed a Russian company. But do you really need to go to media bias fact check dot com—everyone's confirmed universal source of absolute truth, of course—to learn that?
- dr_kiszonka 2y ago
  I went there to check the result, not Yandex. Would you recommend any good alternatives to the media bias website I used?
- bradjohnson 2y ago
  You missed the mark here. He was talking about the Russian state propaganda site that the GP was trying to find on google: "PolitNavigator".