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Re:ChatGPT Search by greenavocado on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:13PM (#42012497)
Here's an easy test case on a topic which is HEAVILY modified by Google. There are many such cases Google distorts searches but the following query is purely for illustration of the problem because it is so obvious.

1. Search Google for "ukrainian who shot his commanding officer" without quotes

2. Google serves me nothing but MSM articles of Russian this or that. The word Russian wasn't even in my search string.

3. Add the Google operator MINUS SIGN Russia

4. Results:

  a) Policeman feared Chris Kaba would kill, court told

  b) Media: Russian Repeated Offender Kills Five More His ...

  c) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena ...

  d) Ukrainian Galician Army

  e) Article from 2017 entitled Killed Defense Intelligence Officer Was "The First Donetsk Cyborg"

  f) Shots fired at car carrying Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's ...
5. Go to yandex.com and search the original query

6. It comes up on Yandex immediately with the original query

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Re:ChatGPT Search by TeaBrain on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:22PM (#42012882)
Where did you get the idea for that query in the first place?
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Re:ChatGPT Search by greenavocado on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:48PM (#42013019)
One of my interests is war photography
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Re:ChatGPT Search by eviks on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:57PM (#42013659)
This is such a bad example: the yandex results have 3,4 with "russian" in the title and in general the same "msm" article list

And its first two results are for a dead site and a deleted article, so fine user-experience reasons to exclude?

And the google results have a link to a reddit story such accident on the first page

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Re:ChatGPT Search by dr_kiszonka on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:17AM (#42014018)
The only relevant result I get on Yandex is a website, which supposedly is a Russian propaganda outlet. Maybe that is why it is not showing up on Google, and isn't necessarily a distortion?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politnavigator-bias/

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Re:ChatGPT Search by adamrezich on Friday November 01, 2024 @01:20AM (#42014270)
Yandex is indeed a Russian company. But do you really need to go to media bias fact check dot com—everyone's confirmed universal source of absolute truth, of course—to learn that?
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Re:ChatGPT Search by dr_kiszonka on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:29AM (#42017248)
I went there to check the result, not Yandex. Would you recommend any good alternatives to the media bias website I used?
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Re:ChatGPT Search by bradjohnson on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:39AM (#42017344)
You missed the mark here. He was talking about the Russian state propaganda site that the GP was trying to find on google: "PolitNavigator".
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