Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites

Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by mthoms on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:13PM (#22611114)

I thought it would have been obvious, but to clarify what I meant by impartial and organic — I mean "ranked using the same criteria regardless of origin".

Of course any human-written algorithm will have bias. But it's a reasonable expectation (and the current norm) that every page faces the same bias.

I'm not sure where you're going with your last comment. If you've got evidence that Google is manually promoting its own pages within the search results (not ads) then please provide sources. This has never been proven and Google have consistently maintained they don't do it.

(I'm not a Google fan but I believe them in this case because of the anti-trust implications)

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by wolco on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:38AM (#22613676)

Google has been doing this since the beginning. They maintain they don't manually change the rankings.

Google originally picked a bunch of sites and included there own and gave them a 10 page rank. That meant they automatically ranked higher for the same words/term because of a higher reputation score.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by mthoms on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:15AM (#22613838)

I'm not sure exactly what you're alleging. The discussion was about whether Google manually moves their own properties up in the SERPS but you seem to be speaking of how their PageRank algorithm was seeded some 20+ years ago.

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