As you venture into the vast world of the internet, it’s not just chance that decides the content that will appear on platforms such as Pinterest; you have access to a wealth of information that influences the content you see. This fascinating journey takes you through the algorithm, user profiles, and digital breadcrumbs that are […]
kud low was wrong about predicting a recession during the bush administration. google, meanwhile, in the cross hairs of president trump s latest conspiracy theory. the president tweeting monday google manipulated from $2.6 million to 16 million votes for hillary clinton. hoost referring to a study that was discussed on fox business. in 2016 google search algorithm. likely impacted undecided voters in way that shifted at least 2.6 million votes to hillary clinton. epstein himself says president trump was wrong about his findings. epstein did find bias in google search results, but found no evidence they were manipulated to favor clinton. google for its part says the claims were wrong. hillary clinton firing back at the latest conspiracy theory tweeting, the debunked study
make those decisions. i want to thank google s ceo for his willingness to testify today to answer these and other questions. with respect to search results, algorithmic screening as the primary means that google sorts data and information. google search algorithm calculates what is presented to a user based on the variables the user inputs into the search bar. at its best google s algorithm reaches the best answer in the least amount of time and ranks pages most relevant to the search inquiry. of course, by ranking pages google search always favors one page over another. this kind of bias appears harmless. after all, the point of a search is to discriminate among multiple relevant sources to find the best answer. this process turns much more sinister with allegations that google manipulates its
google denies any political motivation or agenda in its search results. listen here. the search is not used to set a political agenda and we don t bias our results to any political ideology. every year we issue hundreds of rhythms to algorithms so they have high quality content in response to user queries. have to take google at their word. the only thing more secret than coca-cola is the google search algorithm. shepard: it s the original recipe. maggie and others report this president doesn t even use a computer. how does he know? he gets all the reports every day. what is interesting, the president is still one of those people that quaintly read the newspaper every day. i remember delivering a bundle of newspapers to sean spicer outside his office one day. i said why are you reading the newspaper? he said the president reads the
sort of another conspiracy theory about that and speaking of good news that s been filtered out by google, i haven t read good news stories about north korea. how bad are things in north korea right now? where do we go? those two points, joy, are very much on my mind. this morning s tweet essentially complaining about the results of the google search algorithm that when you go in for trump news you get news from cnn who has infuriated the president. if i understood the tweet, he s demanding that google adjust the search algorithm so it produces a different result. that s scary when you begin getting a president saying i just don t regard the news media as enemies of the people i regard our i.t. search algorithm companies. that s a new front. on north korea, i think the country really needs to understand that we re heading into a new, very difficult period of bargaining. the statements out of north