Papers Measuring Google Intentional Bias

Artificial bias has been found intentionally introduced by Google team in addition to the natural bias caused by the media dominance of the Left and influence of websites from foreign political entities.

Leo Goldstein, Google’s search bias against conservative news sites has been quantified (Sep 2017) – my latest paper. The full title is A Method of Google Search Bias Quantification and Its Applications in Climate Debate and General Political Discourse.

Leo Goldstein, Caught Red-Handed: Google Search Suppresses Climate Realism (Jul 2017) – Shows intentional bias in the climate debate using publicly available Google Search Quality Evaluation General Guidelines

 Matt Bentley / CanIRank.com, Google bias in search results; 40% lean left or liberal  (Nov 2016) – Uses a rigorous methodology, different from mine, and arrives to the conclusions in the title, and other interesting results. Covered in many online publications, including Newsmax, WSJ, Powerline Blog.

Papers Measuring Google Bias from All Causes

Robert Epstein et al, A Method for Detecting Bias in Search Rankings, with Evidence of Systematic Bias Related to the 2016 Presidential Election – This study concludes that Google Search bias had shifted up to 3 million votes to Hillary. Covered broadly, including in Breitbart and even Washington Post (“Google dismissed Epstein’s research as ‘nothing more than a poorly constructed conspiracy theory.’”)

 Slate, Why Google Search Results Favor Democrats (Dec 2015) – This article reports a study, performed in collaboration with the New America, a Google funded and Google’s Eric Schmidt chaired “no think tank,” which recently fired an employee for criticizing Google. The subtitle “It’s not because the company is biased—it’s more complicated” is a plausible, but incorrect explanation.  In the light of my papers, Matt Bentley study, and the growing body of the anecdotal evidence, the explanation should be It is complicated, but Google is very biased.

Anecdotal Evidence of Intentional Rigging Ranking

Allum Bokhari, Breitbart: Former Google Employee: ‘There Are Efforts to Demote Anything Non-PC from Search Results’ (Aug 2017)

There is a lot of valid anecdotal evidence elsewhere, so I don’t include more of it here.

Miscellaneous Allegations

Factually unsupported allegations of various Google biases are widespread.  Unlike them, the cited research is evidence based and appears valid.

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September 13, 2017 at 05:28PM

Opinion Contributed by Michelle Stirling © Sept. 11, 2017

I attended Al Gore’s latest movie when it premiered in Calgary.  There were only two other people in the theatre. Gore’s movie seemed a rather rambling retrospective rather than a compelling … Continue reading

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September 13, 2017 at 04:38PM

Malcolm Turnbull is staring down coalition backbenchers concerned that a proposed clean energy target could push up power prices and undermine coal-fired power.

MPs concerned about the power bill impact of the policy proposed in a report by Chief Scientist Alan Finkel have been emboldened by last week’s Nationals conference passing a motion opposed to a clean energy target and former prime minister Tony Abbott’s push to wind back renewable energy subsidies.

Mr Abbott will double down on his position in delivering a speech, entitled Daring to Doubt, to the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation on October 9.

It is understood the prime minister and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg are seeking to finalise the design of a new policy by the end of November.

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September 13, 2017 at 04:18PM

As debate about the future of energy policy rages, former prime minister Tony Abbott has been doing the rounds of his colleagues in a bid to get support for dumping all government funding for renewables.

It’s understood Mr Abbott has also canvassed the idea of the Government walking away from the Paris Agreement – something he signed up to when he was in power.

Last weekend, the Nationals adopted a policy to dismiss the last recommendation of Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s report calling for a clean energy target.

This extension, and probably replacement, of the renewable energy target – which was adopted by the Gillard government and kept by Mr Abbott – is now so unpopular, ministers are desperately searching for a way to reshape it, starting with a new name that doesn’t mention clean or renewable power.

If the Government keeps renewables in its final energy policy mix there is likely to be a backbench revolt with Mr Abbott as its figurehead.

Mr Turnbull and his Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg are committed to having an element of clean, renewable energy in the final mix with some older technology base-load generation from coal.

Yesterday Mr Frydenberg reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to the Paris targets which aim for a 2 degree reduction in greenhouse emissions.

While any revolt on clean energy would be embarrassing, it shouldn’t mean the policy would be defeated because of likely support from Labor for a package that contains renewables.

The Government has already twice put off any party room consideration of this most contentious of the Finkel recommendations – it was to be considered in June and then in August – and it could be pushed further out from the latest deadline of Christmas set by Mr Turnbull last month.

The Government says its thinking on the final energy policy mix has changed after the Australian Energy Market Operator’s report last week suggested a shortfall of about 1000 megawatts of readily available power by 2022.

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September 13, 2017 at 03:56PM