Bias is a nasty beast. A market research class I took in graduate school focused on the identification and elimination of bias. My final paper was on an intentionally biased piece of research. It was far easier to introduce bias and then talk about the bias than it would have been to attempt to do unbiased work and defend it as unbiased. For that reason alone, the Trump administration’s recent complaints that Google’s search engine is biased are almost certainly true. The nature of the bias, however, has not been determined.
Eric Schmidt's political alliances well explain Google's bias. This is well documented in Julian Assange's book "When Google Met Wikileaks". As expected, the new wave of censorship targets both left-wing/progressive and right-wing opponents of these allies. Google is more than a media, it is a gateway to what people see and don't see, and as such, should be regulated to have no political bias.
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Of Course Google Is Biased
Posted by: Rob Enderle September 3, 2018 05:00 AMBias is a nasty beast. A market research class I took in graduate school focused on the identification and elimination of bias. My final paper was on an intentionally biased piece of research. It was far easier to introduce bias and then talk about the bias than it would have been to attempt to do unbiased work and defend it as unbiased. For that reason alone, the Trump administration’s recent complaints that Google’s search engine is biased are almost certainly true. The nature of the bias, however, has not been determined.