Google Leans Left with Climate Search Results
September 13, 2017
Most Google users never think about bias and politics when they search or read suggested pages. Many, though, believe that the average Google user is being sold a bill of goods when searching about climate on Google. A recent WUWT investigation discovered that Google is manipulating the search results to favor left-leaning political ideas. WUWT quotes Google as claiming that their ranking is determined by the following criteria: “High-quality information pages on scientific topics should represent a well established scientific consensus on issues where such consensus exists.” (Section 3.2)
The author goes on to explain,
But the allegations of ‘scientific consensus’ are made only in one field – climate alarmism! ‘Scientific consensus’ is almost an oxymoron. The consensus is a decision-making method used outside of science.
Google was set up to be free from bias, but according to their own explanation, they tend to support the most popular opinion which is a dangerous route to take. Would people want a truly impartial system of search, allowing each searcher to evaluate the source for accuracy and ‘scientific consensus’, or do we like to rely on others, and Google, to make the hard decisions for us?
Catherine Lamsfuss, September 13, 2017
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