Editor's Pick: Of Course Google Is Biased

Of Course Google Is Biased

Rob Enderle Sep 3, 2018 5:00 AM PT

I once took a market research class that 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, it's almost certainly true that Google's search engine is biased. [More...]

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