I hope a lot of students show up on this one.
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The Search Suggestion Effect does influence choices people make. There is also still the effect of trending on popular searches. If I type just one simple English word like "lonely" in a Google search I will be directed to a youtube video of a pop song or a movie. The actual definition of the word is more than five items away. The Webster's dictionary seems to be a less reliable source of information than a VIMEO youtube. If I type the term "Black Panther" then I will be directed to Disney. It's not for 7 pages that the Black Panther Party comes up. Parts of history are being repressed while search engines are guided by the popular.
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I've also noticed that unlike the early days of Google where you'd usually have hundreds of thousands of search results for any query, because that's just how big the internet is, now you're limited to a couple hundred on most. At least that's my experience. That means they're censoring the majority of what's on the internet. In some cases, I think that's fine. There's certain things I don't have any interest in seeing even a description of in a search result because they're creepy and disgusting. The problem is that they've taken the liberty of eliminating most of everything else with it too. Like social media, I find that the experience is increasingly boring and sterile on Google and other search engines. Honestly I revisited Bing lately and I'm surprised to say that it's actually superior to Google now for most searches. Duck Duck go has begun censoring/influencing politically over the last few years now too and they're even worse for searches than Google is. There aren't a whole lot of other options out there either. Google used to be the gold standard. Now they're like GM in the 1980s. Everybody uses their product because it's familiar, but it's really become a piece of low quality trash. Hopefully someone comes in and knocks them off their high horse like the Japanese manufacturers did to the big 3 in that era. It is desperately needed here.
You said that really well. Google is not the same company it was even a decade ago. As things changed our eyes adjusted to accept it as "normal" but we know it is not. My son prefers the youtube search engine to any other search engine. He'd rather see somebody spit out information for ten minutes than just get to the point. Browsers keep coming in but I don't see as many options with search engines.
Check out Presearch.