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  • Apple's social media efforts fail again as Apple Music Connect to shut down in 2019

    Apple succeeds when it isn’t trying. iMessage is a massive social network. 
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  • Google's Pichai denies any political bias in search results during lengthy Congressional t...

    In response to an earlier comment, I did an image search on DuckDuckGo and here are the top results:


    On DDG, I got a picture of Trump (#5) and Barbra Streisand (#6). Appropriate I think.
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  • Google's Pichai denies any political bias in search results during lengthy Congressional t...

    gatorguy said:
    I don’t think Google modifies search results to lean left or right (as Trump claims). In fact, it would make more sense to show results consistent with what the specific user wants, not to force something on them that’s different from their views.

    That said, I’m not convinced Google doesn’t alter results based on monetary issues (such as paid advertisers). Or lets results of their own products climb higher in the rankings than they normally would. 
    I actually believe Google is doing this. I've seen a ton of people testing the search results and more than 97% of the results are from liberal outlets when you Google things such as Trump news. I've tested this myself and saw the same results. There wasn't one conservative news source in the first few pages of results.Some mathematician published a report from about this and all his findings indicated Google is doing this. From Google firing James Damore, to the leaked e-mail where Google employees talk about burying conservative sites after Trump won the election, I think there is enough evidence that shows Google is more than likely manipulating its algorithm to favor left leaning sites. 
    Have you done the exact same searches with Bing and DDG and Yahoo to see how the results differ? That might be an idea. 
    Actually I have. I tried Bing and DDG and both had conservative sites in the search results unlike Google. 
    It would intesting to put up the exact string and allow each of us to paste in an image of our results. 
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  • Google's Pichai denies any political bias in search results during lengthy Congressional t...

    Most (almost all??) of the bias in Google search results comes from the user themselves. A few years ago, I tested this with 2 friends. One if very left and the other very right. They each brought their personal laptops to a local micro-brew with free WiFi (Like, who doesn't have free WiFi anymore) and each entered the same exact search terms.

    The biggest differences were on the term "Global Warming". Each result 100% validated their own held beliefs.

    Each individual gets to control Google's search results biases and Google allows each of us to live in a self confirming confirmation bias bubble.
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  • iOS 12 now on 75 percent of compatible devices, hit mark faster than iOS 11

    Meanwhile, Android Pie (Version 9.x released in August 2018) is beat by Gingerbread (Version 2.3.x released in October 2010).

    I am really liking iOS 12.
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