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In April 2015, [[Hillary Clinton]] hired [[Stephanie Hannon]] from Google to be her [[chief technology officer]]. In 2015 [[Eric Schmidt]], chairman of Google's holding company started a company – The Groundwork – for the specific purpose of electing Clinton. [[Julian Assange]], founder of [[WikiLeaks]], called Google her ‘secret weapon’. Researchers estimated that Google could help her win the nomination and could deliver between 2.6 and 10.4 million general election votes to Clinton via SEME. No evidence documents any such effort, although since search results are ephemeral, evidence could only come via a Google [[whistleblower]] or an external [[Hacker (computer security)|hacker]].<ref name=":1" />
On June 9, 2016, [[SourceFed]] alleged that Google manipulated its searches in favor of Clinton because the recommended searches for her are different than the recommended searches to both [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]] and yet the searches for both [[Donald Trump]] and [[Bernie Sanders]] are identical to both Yahoo and Bing. When "Hillary Clinton Ind" was entered in the search bar, Google Autocomplete suggested "Hillary Clinton Indiana", while the other vendors suggested "Hillary Clinton indictment". Furthermore, SourceFed placed the recommended searches for Clinton on [[Google Trends]] and observed that the Google suggestion was searched less than the suggestion from the other vendors.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hern|first1=Alex|title=Google Manipulating Search In Favor Of Hillary Clinton?|url=http://techaeris.com/2016/06/10/google-manipulating-results-favor-hillary-clinton/|website=Techaeris|accessdate=10 June 2016|date=10 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1= Richardson|first1=Valerie |title=Google accused of burying negative Hillary Clinton stories|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/9/google-accused-burying-negative-hillary-clinton-st/|accessdate=10 June 2016|work=The Washington Times|date=9 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/google-appears-to-be-manipulating-search-results-to-help-hillary-clinton/article/2593562|title=Google denies manipulating search results to favor Hillary Clinton|last=TAKALA|first=RUDY|date=
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