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Old 09-07-2023, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief View Post
Back to the original topic, here is a classic example of Google manipulating search results.

Scott Adams on Spasmodic Dysphonia
Three things to note:

1. The DuckDuckGo results are almost identical to the Google results

2. It is not a convincing argument that Google must be manipulating search results because it leads with medical advice from NIH, Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic, and Penn Medicine rather than the medical advice of Scott Adams.

3. "Classic example?" It looks like that post on X was made this morning.
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