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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by ar-jan on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:42PM (#20443255)
I can believe Google is attempting to de-emphasize scandals on both sides. As an aside, I do get "russia investigation" as autosuggestion for trump.

I think the bigger problem is that these adjustment appear to be done manually. We know that's what they're doing to avoid racist autocomplete phrases (and reasonably so, I think most people would agree). Having such judgments made on specific political topics/events/scandals will inevitably result in political bias, especially in an organization whose workforce is so politically skewed to one side.

Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by root_axis on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:01PM (#20443436)
My only point is that autocomplete results for arbitrary one-off queries isn't instructive, especially because many people see different autocomplete suggestions. As I've already pointed out, its possible to find strange results for anything if you look hard enough.
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by bduerst on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:52PM (#20445150)
If you type "Donald Trump Ru" into an incognito search you will not get the Russian Investigation. To GP's point, it's numerology to keep focusing on this and drawing conclusions of political bias.