Google includes results based on popularity of searches. If "most people who use Google" click on "this website dot com" to find information about "this topic," then it will show up #1 on the list when you search for "this topic." It will filter out certain things, such as XXX porn sites that have added tags and hashmarks expressly to get on that list. Or it might filter out things that Google has previously marked as illegal, such as warez sites and Nigerian scams. Mostly though it just tags those results with a "warning - this might be a compromised site" or some other such wording. Your own preferences will determine which things get filtered out, more or less. Most of it is entirely in your control, you just have to be pro-active.
It's not an agenda, it's just how the math works.
DuckDuckGo is very useful.
Bing is loaded with nonsense, used mostly by people who don't understand how search engines work, and will copy a search RESULTS link, thinking that it's a link to a specific result. Or they'll believe that every link on that search result is reliable and truthful - again, because they have no idea how search engines work.
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