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Originally Posted by phylt
If fact-checking is something you want to do, then skip Google. It censors topics and shows a definite bias installed by programmers’ preferences. Try Duck Duck Go instead. Even compare the two search engines by researching the same topic. Surprisingly, there will be a difference between the two, with Google skipping information their logarithms have been programmed to omit. At least this is how it was during Covid and breaking news about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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I just did this using simply "covid" as my search criteria. Here's the results:
Google:
Top stories: CNN, The Independent, sky news, Forbes, Newsweek, the Times, Fox News (more news).
Perspectives: The Hill, Substack, The Mercury
Search results:
CDC, WHO, Johns Hopkins, COVID.gov, floridahealthcovid19.gov, whitehouse.gov, UN.org, more CDC, Worldometer, covidactnow tracker, Mayo Clinic, Wikipedia, vaccines.gov, cnn, Yale medicine, OSHA, CBS, CNBC, floridahealth.gov, CA.gov tracker in California, NIH.gov, ABC, Pan American Health Organization, TN.gov, CT.giv, combatcovid.hhs.gov, floridahealthcovid19.gov (sponsored), FDA.gov, CBS News, clevelandclinic.org, publichealth.lacounty.gov, and so on.
DuckDuckGo:
1. a box explaining COVID-19 with summary, vaccines, symptoms, tips, statistics, sourced from Wikipedia.
First search result: CNN
Then Recent News from Newsweek, CNN on MSN, Fox, and "more news."
Then CDC, NPR, CDC, NYT, Mayo Clinic, CDC, worldometer, UC Davis.edu, webmd, and "more results."
Looks to me like Google is offering a much more robust variety of info on its first page than DuckDuckGo is.