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- More content by people, for people in Search https://blog.google/products/search/more-content-by-people-for-people-in-search/ 303 comments
- Survey: Types of content people search through https://discourse.gnome.org/t/survey-types-of-content-people-search-through/12646 3 comments gnome
- How YouTube search pushes people toward conspiracy theories and extreme content https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/12/youtube-vs-google-autocorrect.html 19 comments politics
- NSA Said to Search Content of Messages to and From US: NSA is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas. It is also searching for people who cite information linked to those foreigners, like a little used e-mail address http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/us/broader-sifting-of-data-abroad-is-seen-by-nsa.html?ref=global-home&_r=0 6 comments technology
- The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance, according to intelligence officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/us/broader-sifting-of-data-abroad-is-seen-by-nsa.html?smid=fb-nytimes&wt.z_sma=us_bso_20130808&_r=0 42 comments worldnews
- Google directing people to extreme content and conspiracy theories, Sky News finds - There are calls for Google to address the YouTube search engine algorithm which is accused of "pushing people down rabbit holes". https://news.sky.com/story/youtube-inadvertently-promoting-obsessions-and-extreme-views-11751657 182 comments worldnews
- Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google 43 comments technology
- Study: Google Images search results for “Black people” evoke more racially victimized imagery than search results for “African American people”, and op-eds that use the Black label contain more bias and discrimination content than those that use the African American label. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976211018435 65 comments science
- The people who ruined the internet | As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results 42 comments technology
- A study of political bias in Google search engine results finds no support for the "filter bubble" hypothesis--people of all political orientations receive politically diverse results. There is a slight tendency for right-leaning content to appear higher on the search results page https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3274417 12 comments science