Monday, November 5, 2012

Google Customizing Searches for Obama, Not Romney?

Google is becoming as politicized and unreliable as AOL.

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JULIA ANGWIN | WALL STREET JOURNAL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4

On Google, a Political Mystery That's All Numbers

Google's quest to guess what we want before we want it has produced an unusual side effect: a disparity in the results the search engine presents about the presidential candidates. Read Full Article »

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Is Google anti-Mittens? (Photo: Wikimedia) Just in time for Election Day, the Wall Street Journal decided to conduct a little experiment in personalized search on Google, inspired by Duck Duck Go founder Gabriel Weinberg ... But Google says its mathematical algorithms reflect volume of searches, rather than a political bias...

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On Google, a political mystery that's all numbers

"Google's quest to guess what we want before we want it has produced an unusual side effect: a disparity in the results the company presents about the presidential candidates.

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Google giving customized results when people search for Obama, but not Romney

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