And to make matters even more difficult to separate real from fake news, the search engines can and do manipulate results according to our personal biases. Look for articles on "search engine manipulation effect". It will blow your mind. We all think in terms of "google" but there are other search engines to check and compare results whether on a news story or political candidate, etc. It's disturbing that you and I may search on the same term and come up with different results -- results that have been chosen for each of us based upon the search engine's algorhithms. Google may be your friend -- but it may just be the friend who is not honest when you ask does this dress make me look fat! Difficult and challenging times we live in.
Here are what some consider the most popular search engines in the world:
Google
Bing
Yahoo
Ask.com
AOL.com
Baidu
Wolframalpha
DuckDuckGo
Internet Archive
Yandex.ru
And there are many more. DuckDuckGo.com claims it is "The search engine that doesn't track you".
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