Google reportedly manipulates its search results more than it wants you to believe
Specifically, its a report that probes all the ways the search giant manipulates the results that you see in ways that contradict Googles insistence that it doesnt tip the scales and takes a closer look at blacklists and ways that Google favors big businesses over small ones in search results, among other tweaks the companys engineers make behind the scenes.
The investigation was published by The Wall Street Journal and based on more than 100 interviews, as well as what the Journal said was its own testing of Google Search.
The findings are likely to provide more ammunition for critics such as those on the right who believe the company lets left-leaning political bias influence its search results, as well as small businesses that dont rank as highly as companies like eBay and Amazon.
According to the Journals sources, Google has also manipulated its search algorithms to favor big businesses and that in at least one instance, did so to favor eBay, a major Google advertiser.
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