Did Google Manipulate Search Results to Help Hillary Clinton? (VIDEO)

[The Far Left]

And, if so, did Google report this service as a contribution to Hillary's campaign?

Is this legal?

http://usuncut.com/politics/google-may-alter-clinton-searches/

[JoePhilly]

1. Ancient Alien Theorists will be along shortly to confirm that "if so" part ...

...with some more nonsense.

[Ash_F]

4. Try watching the video. They use the search engine in real time.

Surprising stuff. They also show that bing does not behave in the same way.

[JoePhilly]

7. Bing and Google never act the same way ... the algorithms ...

... are different ... the data they track about your search behavior and web usage is different.

And so they provide different results.

If they worked exactly the same, there would be no need for both to exist.

[The Far Left]

9. Did you watch the video? nt

[Tarc]

2. Funny how this "story" only appears in 1-2 far left sites but a whole bunch of far-right ones

Google's autocomplete functions by popularity of the search; if more -people look for a thing, it will bubble to the top.

The irony here is that now thousands of Bernie and Trump people are going to google to replicate it, which just pushes Hillary to the top even further.

[Ash_F]

6. Watch the whole thing.

[Tarc]

11. Is there something in the following that you are confused by?

“Autocomplete predictions are produced based on a number of factors including the popularity of search terms. Our systems are periodically updated to improve search, and our users’ search activity varies, so the terms that appear in autocomplete may change over time,” she said in an email. “Additionally, our systems automatically filter a small set of offensive or inappropriate content from autocomplete predictions.”

- http://searchengineland.com/google-crooked-hillary-251152

[NurseJackie]

14. I wonder if this also includes a user's previous pattern of search terms and results links clicked.

A friend of mine who has a little Etsy shop was telling me how pleased she was that her shop's name was at the "top" of Google's predictive search ... but she was unable to duplicate her results on my computer when she wanted to demonstrate it to me.

Possibly this could be because, unlike her, I'm not constantly visiting her Etsy shop, or continually typing in her shop name to check the Google search results.

[Ash_F]

15. You didn't watch the whole thing...

[Tarc]

16. Yes, in fact, I did

The premise is absurd, the evidence looks as if it was compiled by a lazy 6th-grader, the conclusion laughable.

You have no case here, move along.

[PufPuf23]

17. I replicated all the Google and Bing searches yesterday in the video and got the same widely

differing results of the auto-type feature.

One can do other searches not starting "Hillary Clinton" and the auto-type feature gives same or very close results with google and bing.

This suggests that the algorithms used are similar but that searches specifically starting Hillary Clinton have been tweaked at Google.

edit to fix grammar in title.

[Tarc]

18. As more people search for a term with associated words

The more it floats to the top as the #1 suggestion.

This is not a hard concept to master.

[PufPuf23]

19. I understand.

The video compases searches on google and bing and another search engine.

When one starts a search "Hillary Clinton" and the beginning of a word or phrase, the auto features have identical results of bing and the third search engine are alike and the google result differs for the examples given (which were searches for negative items about HRC).

I went one step farther in the comparison of bing and google. I chose phrases that were neutral and specifically not about anything political or recent "news".

The results for bing and google were identical or very similar.

But this is only four samples.

[randome]

3. Well, SOMETHING has to account for Sanders not winning!

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[stonecutter357]

5. Welcome to DU!

[Blue_Adept]

8. This is about as on par as this...

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[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

10. That is awesome and supports what I said yesterday about the Democratic Party ditching labor for

Sillicon Valley, and what I've been saying about the Dems for months about ditching ethics and democratic principles for Sillicon Valley's, Libertarian, and Obama administration juggernaut Uber.

[Brickbat]

12. "We assume the results and recommendations offered by that autocomplete are things people have

actually been searching for and might actually solve our problem."

"...there's an inherent trust that when you Google something, you're seeing the actual, factual answer to your query or question, based in part on what other people are actually searching for."

Good lord. There's his problem right there.

"We're not accusing anyone of any crimes." OH WHEW.

Nice gish gallop of names and connections there at the end. Very convincing.

[JoePhilly]

13. +1