September 27, 2004
Google News Bias
So recently there have been stories going around about how Google News is biased. All news is biased.
If nothing else you learn to read the inaccuracy and biases in news by reading Google news.
example:
a story snippet: "A huge wall collapsed Monday at an unfinished terminal at Dubai's airport, killing at least eight workers and injuring dozens more, witnesses said."
another link to another version of the story: 5 die in Dubai crash
The Three Broken Pieces of Google News
- Only major stories will usually get enough syndication to find their way into Google news. Smaller stories may get skipped entirely.
- Web syndication means and natural human bias means that the most opinionated versions of stories will likely become some of the most popular and get cross referenced the most.
- People can optimize their news to bias the results in the same way that I optimize websites to bias search results.
As I learn more I am beginning to see the world as an extremely shady place...
Posted at September 27, 2004 6:05 PMComments
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