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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Cost of New Bikes Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:14:42 -0700 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <dupt7jh0igu4e97ffrjak6c85l6f9n00mp@4ax.com> References: <uiqqj6$4o1j$1@dont-email.me> <73790979-e55c-40e4-8aae-4d5aa853cc36n@googlegroups.com> <uir05h$5knu$1@dont-email.me> <2566f7b4-40e7-441d-bbce-cfbec6dd66c9n@googlegroups.com> <8bc7fc5b-cfe4-46d8-947f-5a87ddb122acn@googlegroups.com> <6bb6068f-b106-4961-9fcf-74721cff1436n@googlegroups.com> <4hm5li1pji4cq5ojfad3t1fig67k0ju0oe@4ax.com> <oHAfO.156073$7NFd.114929@fx16.iad> <iant7jl7lf34je6neic9u9kekae8l8r68o@4ax.com> <v5mo50$3dj03$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net xwDP94/RDjtscpGkjNMLgwSnLS1D2lTmt4zYUsKx6BoHkLuudl Cancel-Lock: sha1:XLCHlebxrU8s01TKKRnsDQvkS6w= sha256:DhBQLx8Fyka9S5hmpAGoHdhfhCITwBU4EEKavGkt33c= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 3290 On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:25:04 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote: >Search result bias is easily seen by a politically sensitive >search with two engines in two tabs. Compare top ten results. That doesn't work because most (not all) browsers move sponsored advertising links to the top of their search results. They also move links that favor their political agenda to the top of the search results. Separating relevant links from promoted links is difficult because nearly all the promoted click through's are on the first page. Of course, an advertising driven search engine vendor would promote its paid advertising to the first page. For amusement, I tried using: <https://ground.news> to untangle the political bias problem. "Read the news from multiple perspectives. See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources" It works, but there's a big problem. The only links that appear on ground.news are those that ground.news considered worthy of rating. In other words, another layer of filtering and selection biased links. I just tried to use it to search for recent articles mentioning "AI": <https://ground.news/interest/ai> It finds mostly stories with a single source and no analysis as to political orientation. Interesting, but useless for anything other than heavily politicized events that attract wide media attention. It's certainly not a search engine for news. For myself, most of what I use a search engine for (technical lookups) are not burdened with excessive political bias. Current events are a very small part of my reading. I can probably live with some political bias. However, I do get irritated when the search engine vendor promotes its advertisers and sponsors products to the top of the search results. Under the present ownership and revenue model, there's not much that can be done to eliminate that. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558