Search engine manipulation effect: Difference between revisions

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In April 2015, [[Hillary Clinton]] hired [[Stephanie Hannon]]&nbsp;from Google to be her [[chief technology officer]]. In 2015 [[Eric Schmidt]], chairman of Google's holding company started a company&nbsp;– 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 for Clinton because the recommended searches for Clintonthe candidate are different than the recommended searchers to both [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]] and yet the searches for both [[Donald Trump]] and [[Bernie Sanders]] are identical to both Yahoo and Bing. Furthermore, SourceFed placed the recommended searches for Clinton on [[Google Trends]] and observed that these terms were searched less than the recommended searchers for both Yahoo and Bing.<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=http://www.washingtontimes.com|first1=The Washington Times|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 Washingtion Times|date=9 June 2016}}</ref>

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