Plato has - like many others - noticed that Google's response to Climategate appears somewhat strange.
A micro media story appears within hours as an 'auto-suggest' option, yet after 3 weeks of wall-to-wall interest, Climategate stopped appearing within the first few days.
The hit counter is also in reverse - now that does seem rather odd doesn't it - it peaked to Plato's knowledge at around 33m, a minute ago it was returning this :
"Results 1 - 10 of about 22,300,000 for climategate. (0.10 seconds)"
So, is this some bizarre statistical quirk or an Algoreithm?
Well, Al Gore is a senior advisor to Google...and Google are all snuggled up with green energy and Copenhagen...
Here's what the Google forums thread has to say on the subject - their readers aren't convinced.
I have now ditched GGL & use Bing as my primary Search Engine.
ReplyDeleteBing eh? Perhaps you need to revise your assessment of their neutrality. They don't show climategate in their suggestions either (at least here in UK). Not even when you split the word in two. So they seem to be behaving the same way as google was - climategate in google now appears after the m is typed in.
ReplyDeleteStartpage, however,states on the same search:
"60 unique top-ten pages selected from at least 69,299,304 matching results"
So, on the basis of what you've said about google, it suggests that google is perhaps still misleading us and the rest of the world?
As of 16:34 on the 15th, Cimategate now resolves in the auto search for the UK but results are now down to 21,000,000.
ReplyDeleteThanks P & A.
ReplyDeleteSeems both GGL & BONG are as fickle as Quentin Davies.
GGL autosuggests C/gate at c l i m; BONG doesn't autosuggest anything.
There certainly seems to be deliberate bias. I find the news pages steer away from certain right wing sources.
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