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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by zenexer on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:18AM (#22605663)
They weren't just being compared to Google. They were mostly being compared to Bing. Remember, the underlying data provider for Verizon's search results is Bing. When compared to other Bing-powered search engines, the ordering of results should be nearly identical.
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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by yellow_postit on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:35PM (#22607566)
There's no universal guidelines for (document|query) rankings so the "bias" is always going to be very hard to find a smoking gun for. The appearance of bias in the rankings is a real issue that companies (and regulators?) should care about.
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