It’s a Fact: Google has a Liberal Bias
Not that Google ever made a particular claim to being unbiased (say, like Fox News being “fair and balanced”) but I went to set up my iGoogle page with a new tab for “Politics”.
So guess what the default RSS feeds/gadgets all linked to?
If you guessed “far-left web sites and blogs”, then you guessed right.
The default links included:
- Daily Kos
- Democracy Now!
- MSNBC
- Washington Post
- CNN
And when I went to adjust my iGoogle page to see if I could tweak it a bit more in line with what most people in this country tend to be (very slightly right of centre), Google “recommended” adding the following:
- FireDogLake
- CrooksAndLiars
- HuffPo
- Talking Points Memo
What gives, Google? Are you folks so far to the moonbat left that you “think” everyone on the internet is a stark raving liberal?
Why the bias in the default page?
I’m surprised that I was actually able to add some sites/blogs from the right to even the balance a bit. Most of them are standard neocon or New Right fare (RedState, LGF, TownHall, and the like).
The only thing I could find that was remotely paleo-conservative was an RSS feed from the Von Mises Institute, and a handful of feeds concerning Ron Paul’s now-concluded GOP primary bid.
I wouldn’t have objected to finding a feed or two from the John Birch Society or the New American, but given Google’s demographic targets, pigs may sooner fly.
I say let the liberal anti-American people have the search engine that is already too ruined to ever be anything more than a prop for their causes. Google is hopeless in my opinion. There are other search engines including yahoo’s and one can always scroogle instead of google.
Comment by Torde — 21 June 2008 @ 4:59 am
not much wrong with honest liberals or honest conservatives. opportunity here
for a conservative brand.
Comment by bill woods — 10 September 2008 @ 9:56 pm