Posted by
James Burns on Monday, December 15, 2008 9:55:11 AM
This morning I found a little bit of information quite troubling. I was watching Fox News as I was getting ready to take my daughter to school. The piece was discussing the censorship the search engine Google puts on search results. Seems that we can't even do a search on the internet without having liberal bias.
What I mean is the piece on Fox describes how Google has taylored search results. The funny thing is they don't deny it. If you do a search on Barack Obama you will find mostly results in his favor. Then use another search like Yahoo and see the difference in the results. Google employees donated 487,000 dollars to Barack Obama's campaign compaired to 20,000 to John McCain's. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has publically endorsed Barack Obama during his campaign for president. So does a left leaning search engine have a bias? Are search engines tayloring their results to push an agenda for a certain movement? On the Fox piece Google sources even stated that they do edit results when sites are submitted to their search engine. So information we may be getting is altered and or censored.
This here is unfair for all people using these services. Yes they are private companies, but what sort of accountability do these companies have in passing on correct or complete information. People rely on them quite a bit for information for research etc. Apparently it's more important to push an adgenda than it is to provide correct information. But that is the way our country is going. Sad.