Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?

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'If this is true, it is a disgrace': Donald Trump responds to viral video claiming Google's search is biased

Donald Trump took aim at Google on Friday afternoon after a viral video claimed to show the web giant's autocomplete search function manipulated results to favor Hillary Clinton.

"If this is true, it is a disgrace that Google would do that," Trump wrote in a statement sent to Business Insider by his campaign. "Very, very dishonest."

"They should let it float and allow people [to] see how crooked she really is," he continued.

The video, created by SourceFed, showed multiple autocomplete search results for "Hillary Clinton" that it claimed proved that Google "has been actively altering search recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton's campaign."

The video had been viewed more than 14 million times on Facebook since Thursday.

In a statement on Friday, Google emphatically rejected that its autocomplete function was biased toward any candidate. Rather, each site simply uses a different algorithm from the others.

A Google representative wrote in a statement:

Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works. Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person's name. More generally, our autocomplete predictions are produced based on a number of factors including the popularity of search terms
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http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-google-search-viceo-2016-6
 
They can't be favouring democrats. After all this is a greedy multinational guilty of 'tax avoidance'

On Monday, Bloomberg’s Jesse Drucker reported that the tech giant avoided paying $2 billion in global income taxes by moving $10 billion in revenue, or 80 percent of its pretax profit, to Bermuda, which does not have a corporate income tax. Google has nearly doubled the amount of money that it is sheltering in Bermuda since 2008.

The IRS reportedly audited Google’s offshoring strategy last year, according to a separate Bloomberg report. Google was saving about $1 billion in taxes per year by shifting its profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda, cutting its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, according to a 2010 Bloomberg report.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/google-taxes-bermuda_n_2270354.html
HMRC acted after controversy over the low level of taxes paid by big companies that operate in the UK but have headquarters abroad.Despite the UK being one of Google's biggest markets, it paid £20.4m in taxes in 2013. The value of its sales in Britain that year was £3.8bn. Google makes most of its UK profits through online advertising here. The company has been criticised for its complex international tax structures.

Its European headquarters are in Ireland, which has a lower corporation tax rate than the UK.
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Not even the first flag on the wikipedia article.

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This is same thing as black people complaining that searching about them brings up unwanted results.
 
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http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/10/technology/hillary-clinton-google-search-results/

I guess the same kind of people who support Donald Trump believe in Internet conspiracies. Most people have a word for them - stupid.
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I'd rather investigate "internet conspiracies" and run the risk of being wrong than not question what I'm being told at all. Especially when some of the conspiracies turn out to be true.

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/ar...ories-which-turned-out-to-be-true--xJeose5tlZ
http://www.infowars.com/33-conspira...out-to-be-true-what-every-person-should-know/

The fact of the matter is that humans frequently conspire to do all sorts of dodgy things. Questioning whether people who have a motive to conspire are in fact conspiring isn't stupid, it's good policy.
 
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http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/10/technology/hillary-clinton-google-search-results/

I guess the same kind of people who support Donald Trump believe in Internet conspiracies. Most people have a word for them - stupid.
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So, the biggest search engine in the World; that almost everyone has their emails running through; data collected on their profiles for searches, has a social media website, has it's operating system on majority of cellphones around the World. The company who's name is in the dictionary as a verb, to 'google' something.

The same company who's ceo met with Julian Assange around the time of his publishing of the leaks, the same ceo that is now a key figure in the pentagon, would never, ever try to dissuade the public?

It astounds me that people can be completely devoid of critical thinking.

Such powerful belief in authority I guess is what makes these guys so power hungry in the first place. That news like this frightens people to the point where it is definitely a conspiracy because all else would cause the fake world around them to crumble. It's like a babe plucked from the nipple and wanting to go back to it as quickly as possible. Stupid does not suffice. It is a wonder.

Some bedtime reading kinda like a ladder back to reality: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ ; http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/09/julian-assange-google-is-in-bed-with-hillarys-campaign-video/
 
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