How to avoid using Google's politically biased search algorithm

[FireDragon76]

I would hardly call far right, disgruntled individuals a large part of Google's customer base.

 

[durangodawood]

What is Google's product?

You are.

Who are Google's customers?

People that want to make money off of you or otherwise manipulate or watch you.

Who needs Google?

Im sure all the other "free" alternatives exist just to serve you.

 

[pgp_protector]

Im sure all the other "free" alternatives exist just to serve you.

 

[Semper-Fi]

Oh look, more conservative claims of martyrdom. Google does not care that you are conservative and they are not actively trying to sabotage your search results. Google has enough ethical issues without making things up to appear persecuted.

Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks

Security expert claims Chinese surveillance may have affected
tens of thousands of Americans
Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
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Dr. Robert Epstein testified that Google influenced votes in the 2016 elections
through its manipulative search-engine techniques.
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Dec. 8, 2017 Google’s true origin partly lies in
CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
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July 11 2019 How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
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CHINA: SolarWinds Board Director ‘Led The Establishment’ Of $75 Billion Investment Firm Into China

 

[timothyu]

How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State

Why not? They've been doing it here for a decade or more. The goal is to have the whole world under surveillance.

 

[Belk]

Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks

Security expert claims Chinese surveillance may have affected
tens of thousands of Americans
Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks
-
Dr. Robert Epstein testified that Google influenced votes in the 2016 elections
through its manipulative search-engine techniques.
-

Dec. 8, 2017 Google’s true origin partly lies in
CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
-
July 11 2019 How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.
How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State
-

TRUMP: SolarWinds Breach ‘May Be China,’ MSM Won’t Admit Due To ‘Financial Reasons’

CHINA: SolarWinds Board Director ‘Led The Establishment’ Of $75 Billion Investment Firm Into China

Was there a reason you wanted to post a bunch of links unrelated to my response?

 

[essentialsaltes]

How To Stop Using Google Search On Your Computer And Phone
There's always a curious irony when a business intentionally seeks to alienate a large portion of its customer base.

Personally, I've never used 'Brave' as a browser but I have migrated to Duckduckgo for searching.

Speaking of that exact same curious irony:

‘DuckDuckBye’: Conservatives Revolt After DuckDuckGo Vows to Down-Rank ‘Russian Disinformation’ Sites

Fortunately for the consumers of Russian disinformation, it appears there are many ways to obtain it.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Speaking of that exact same curious irony:

‘DuckDuckBye’: Conservatives Revolt After DuckDuckGo Vows to Down-Rank ‘Russian Disinformation’ Sites

Fortunately for the consumers of Russian disinformation, it appears there are many ways to obtain it.

Not that I want 'disinformation' but I would like to make that determination without the assistance of an algorithm. I'd rather my search engine of choice not steer me in the direction they want me to go.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Not that I want 'disinformation' but I would like to make that determination without the assistance of an algorithm.

You want a search algorithm without an algorithm?

Maybe just download the internet and use control-F.

 

[chevyontheriver]

You want a search algorithm without an algorithm?

I want a search without being steered thank you.

Maybe just download the internet and use control-F.

Very funny.

 

[7thKeeper]

I want a search without being steered thank you.

Very funny.

While I understand what you're trying to say, by its very definition, the algorithms the search engines use steer you somewhere. That's what they are supposed to do.

 

[chevyontheriver]

While I understand what you're tryiny to say, by its very definition, the algorithms the search engines use steer you somewhere. That's what they are supposed to do.

They create a list of relevant or supposedly relevant sites based on tags, based on page content, based on popularity, based on freshness, and if I request it also based on region or images. OK, that is done by an algorithm. It isn't done by hamsters. The result is I get to steer through the listed sites by my own choice. If I want to go to the 14th page of results I can do so. A respectable search engine does not censor based on politics. A search engine that I want to use does not protect me from political thought because they don't like that political thought. I want to be able to see anarchist, communist, royalist and all other sorts of political views and not just be fed what the overlords allow me to see.

I was an early adopter of DuckDuckGo and have recommended it countless times. I'll have to see how this plays out and then figure out what to do. Perhaps search.brave.com will be my next. Too soon to tell.

 

[essentialsaltes]

They create a list of relevant or supposedly relevant sites based on [many things]

And how do they show you the most relevant sites on page 1? The algorithm has editorial choices built into it. For instance with DuckDuckGo, "Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by deleting search results for companies he believes are content mills, such as Demand Media's eHow, which publishes 4,000 articles per day produced by paid freelance writers, which Weinberg states to be "low-quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google's search index"."

Is that refining the search quality or 'censorship'?