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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.

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.