Re: Cost of New Bikes

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:25:04 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

Search result bias is easily seen by a politically sensitive
search with two engines in two tabs. Compare top ten results.

That doesn't work because most (not all) browsers move sponsored
advertising links to the top of their search results.  They also move
links that favor their political agenda to the top of the search
results.  Separating relevant links from promoted links is difficult
because nearly all the promoted click through's are on the first page.
Of course, an advertising driven search engine vendor would promote
its paid advertising to the first page.

For amusement, I tried using:
<https://ground.news>
to untangle the political bias problem.
"Read the news from multiple perspectives. See through media bias with
reliable news from local and international sources"
It works, but there's a big problem.  The only links that appear on
ground.news are those that ground.news considered worthy of rating. In
other words, another layer of filtering and selection biased links.

I just tried to use it to search for recent articles mentioning "AI":
<https://ground.news/interest/ai>
It finds mostly stories with a single source and no analysis as to
political orientation.  Interesting, but useless for anything other
than heavily politicized events that attract wide media attention.
It's certainly not a search engine for news.

For myself, most of what I use a search engine for (technical lookups)
are not burdened with excessive political bias.  Current events are a
very small part of my reading.  I can probably live with some
political bias.  However, I do get irritated when the search engine
vendor promotes its advertisers and sponsors products to the top of
the search results.  Under the present ownership and revenue model,
there's not much that can be done to eliminate that.


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