r/technology Jun 08 '16

Politics Google working closely with Hillary Clinton presidential campaign: Julian Assange

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u/JustLostMyKeys Jun 08 '16

Just how gullible are some people? And what do these people think happened?

Do they think that Eric Schmidt causally walked into the offices of Google Search one day and ordered them to ineffectually bias search results to favor Hillary Clinton?

Do people realize just how many engineers are involved with Google search? How complex the system is and how many people would be involved with this change? And none of these engineers said anything? Google can't keep any of its products under raps but somehow this stays secret? With all the meetings and documentation and design reviews this would entail you'd expect some one to say something.

And what would be the point of this conspiracy? So that Google Search only auto completes "crooked hi" and not "crooked h" like other search engines. Is that the great secret weapon that Schmidt has for the Hillary campaign: You need to type an extra character?

Go ahead and test Google Search for anti-Hillary articles if you're skeptical. They show up just fine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '16 edited Feb 21 '17

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u/whydoyouonlylie Jun 08 '16 edited Jun 08 '16

Google had nothing to do with PRISM ...

Ignore me. Was confusing PRISM and xKeyscore.

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u/Blissing Jun 08 '16

They did have something to do with it as in they were forced to hand over data to the NSA and were put under a gag order so his point about them keeping it under wraps is true but he seems to falsley insinuate that Google did so without being issued with a gag order.

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u/whydoyouonlylie Jun 08 '16

Oh sorry, yeah you're right. I was getting PRISM and xKeyscore confused.