Does Google Demote Men's Rights Websites

qwertyWerty2 · 2018-02-13T19:11:51+00:00

Excellent analysis. Google actively undermining its core value proposition, search, because of activism.

Lethn · 2018-02-13T21:53:18+00:00

It's no secret that Google frequently messes with the search results depending on what you look for. Very often depending on the topic you'll get very left leaning news sites for example bumped up to the top of the page.

This is something that Milo Yiannopoulos has investigated in a quite detailed way, I've done my own investigating into this because i was getting extremely annoyed by google's search results and I couldn't figure out why.

If you search for a keyword like "Brexit" in the google search engine, it constantly brings up Guardian and BBC spam articles, they're not even necessarily 'news' articles, but opinion pieces. However oddly enough, when you go to Bing, there's a much wider variety of news sources available.

For anybody who wants to look at multiple perspectives and have an honest research of a subject, this is utterly infuriating as it means Google really is fucking with the results and trying to filter out different perspectives on certain political topics.

They are literally trying to re-write history at times and it's disturbing to see, in fact, I think I may well make Bing my homepage, long overdue and it seems to be somewhat usable now compared to what it was like before.

UNLIKELYME · 2018-02-14T06:11:32+00:00

Google has an editorial policy that is enforced by Search quality and Spam teams. Furthermore they have over 10 000 outsiders who rank searches.

Yet it could be, in this case, that the Googles algorithm ranks certain MRA articles lower because they have so few "good" sites linking to them. The Feminist articles, on the other hand, have "authoritative" mainstream media outlets, governments, big organizations etc linking to them. That puts them higher in the results.

That's how Google mostly work even nowadays, particularly if there's no information in the browser's cache (as was the case here) or if the user isn't logged in (which probably was the case here).

Pillowed321 · 2018-02-14T01:53:28+00:00

I don't have a link or anything but I remember during the election when Trump criticized Elizabeth Warren for lying about her native american heritage, Google's autocomplete removed search resultes for "Elizabeth Warren Native American." Google does change their search results to push a narrative and given their feminist support it wouldn't surprise me if they are changing their results to be anti-MRA.

ThePigmanAgain · 2018-02-13T23:06:06+00:00

Wouldn't surprise me. Recently someone did a satirical book on Islam. I googled it, and all i got on the front page was articles about the book. I Bing-ed it, and there at the top of the first page was a link to the site where you could buy the thing. It's almost as if Google doesn't want people buying books they don't agree with...

TracyMorganFreeman · 2018-02-14T14:40:39+00:00

I'm not so sure. There are probably more blogs that are pro feminism and anti-MRA.

OnePunchSnowman · 2018-02-14T15:51:18+00:00

Couldn't this also be attributed to the fact that more people are pro women's rights and anti MRA?

Rethgil · 2018-02-14T22:33:12+00:00

I appreciate the idea of creating debate with such a question, but seriously why is it being asked? Its established Google demotes MRA sites and results. Its known.

NibblyPig · 2018-02-17T10:03:56+00:00

The other day I looked for an update on Damore and realised I probably shouldn't use Google to search for it. Used bing instead, got many more results.

Title	Does Google Demote Men's Rights Websites
Author	Pz5
Upvotes	95
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Date	February 13, 2018 5:08 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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