Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll on Thursday showed Google hid a Daily Caller article about the World Health Organization’s abortion advocacy in its search results. Searches of the article’s exact title placed it on pages that statistically nearly no one ever clicks on, while articles that present pro-abortion perspectives come up first instead.
So this is crazy in terms of @googlepubpolicy suppression (and in light of news from the NYT that the WHO is basically full of shit).
In April, WHO took a few minutes to remind the world how helpful abortion would be during the pandemic. We covered it, straight up and down. pic.twitter.com/SSekywaR1r
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) October 1, 2020
According to Ingersoll, even when fed exact phrases and quotes from the article including just the headline and SEO headline, Google’s search engine doesn’t display the Caller article earlier than at least page 10. The Federalist found similar search results using different browsers and search histories — placing the exact title in quote marks to search for it specifically did not pull up the article on the first page of Google’s search results.
When you put the headline inside quotes, thus searching for matches to the EXACT phrase, you get a readout of WHO’s abortion position AND an aggregator called “NewsBreak” that posts the first graf of our story and a link back. pic.twitter.com/ZPgevcuzD2
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) October 1, 2020
Instead of showing the Caller article, for Ingersoll the WHO’s original abortion webpage is displayed along with third-party sites that picked up the Caller article but don’t all link to the Caller’s original story…
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