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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 04:16 PM Dec 2016

Anyone else notice BreitBart news coming up a lot more in Google searches?

I'm sure it's because post election people are clinking a lot more on those links out of curiosity because suddenly the source has been thrust into the forefront. And so Google's algorithms push it to the top. Or maybe it always was a top result I just never noticed . I'm not being conspiracy theorist here. At any rate just wondering if others have noticed as well.

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Anyone else notice BreitBart news coming up a lot more in Google searches? (Original Post) Locut0s Dec 2016 OP
By some metrics, they are the number 8 political news site, so they get a lot of traffic now. FarCenter Dec 2016 #1
That's what I was thinking... Locut0s Dec 2016 #2
It's the inevitable result of all the left's objections to Steve Bannon as their former editor. FarCenter Dec 2016 #4
Google needs to ban that racist hate site. nt MADem Dec 2016 #3
 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
1. By some metrics, they are the number 8 political news site, so they get a lot of traffic now.
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 04:30 PM
Dec 2016

Since a lot more people are now reading Breitbart, due to all the publicity that they've got, a lot more people are clicking on their pages when they appear in the search results, so Google is moving them up the results page.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
2. That's what I was thinking...
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 04:33 PM
Dec 2016

Just sad that a vehicle for neo facism and white supremacy gets to become a top "legitimised" source of news via popularism and algorithms. Not that I'm surprised just saddened. Just yet another in the mile long list of terror we are witnessing.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
4. It's the inevitable result of all the left's objections to Steve Bannon as their former editor.
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 05:05 PM
Dec 2016
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