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 No.392330

Yeah, so I'm not trying to push any kind of conspiracy theory, but I've noticed the following. I've been google (mostly image-) searching the same words (e.g. "USSR real wages") which used to bring up real results in the first row for like 10 years.

Now? Nope, none, maybe second page results. (If any.)

Is there an actual censorship going on? Google is literally dumbing down its search results. But is this anything new? Jimmy Dore, for example, has been complaining that his youtube subscribers keep on reporting (when the Syria shit was going on) that they get "unsubbed" even tho they hit "sub" like weeks ago.

Since both are owned by Alphabet Inc. I think there's a trend here. But please, tell me if I'm a retard. I noticed this same shit with China-related stuff as well. Like I want to search for how China's GDP/capita changed since 1900, then 5 years ago I had a graph or sg, but now it's just fucking blank.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO COMPILE OUR OWN RESOURCES??
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 No.392359

It's possible, but I think google search has become increasingly useless because of direct listings and the way it prioritizes wall-to-wall astroturfed blogs pitching "the five best Cisco phones!" Virtually anything you google search is sponsored listings which completely fucks up objectivity in searches with marketing bullshit.
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 No.392466

USE ANOTHER SEARCH ENGINE YOU FUCKING CUCK
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 No.392469

AND STOP USING GOOGLE AS A VERB YOU RETARDED UYGHUR
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 No.392474

Schizo
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 No.392480

>>392359
If I understand correctly the implications of what you are saying… You are saying that, say, neolib/Randian/etc. think tanks paid shitton of moneys to "up" their search results inside Google's search, burying actual (factual) results. So it's not actual conscious censorship, just the profit motive doing its thing, correct?

Still, the end result is the same, no?

>>392466
>>392469
I actually do search parallel in duckduckgo, and I get the same results. Is it possibly that ddg.com actually take a lot of its results from google? I haven't tried yandex, tho (since it's russian language dominated)…

>>392472

>things that didn't happen, pg. 1

>>392474
k
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 No.392486

I search it and I barely saw anything from Marxists.org. I think the mods here are actually trying to crack down on /pol/shit.
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 No.392500

Google results have been maximum entropy, literally no better than random then smeared with dogshit, ever since the machine learning update.

Normalfags did not notice. They chant that "Google is the best search engine" "Best quality results". (NPC theory confirmed)
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 No.392504

I have noticed stuff disappearing off Google. DuckDuckGo search results are much closer to what Google would spit out even a decade ago.
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 No.392518

Good thread.
We need to put our wiki to better use. This could be a great area for that.
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 No.392529

No I agree i had been researching g ussr growth rates and I had to look through sevral articles to find the fact they had outstanding growths in the 20s till stagnation. I thought this was basically historic consensus since I was taught it in British schools. But all google would give me was pages of critiques of the soviet system with fucking retard economists saying it would of grown twice as fast if they had been capatlist.
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 No.392530

In addition to politics and news whose search results they actively and blatantly manipulate, Google has also become fucking useless for a wide variety of other web searches. I seriously wonder if they realize that at some point they're going to start losing search users with all this garbage.
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 No.392542

>>392486
oh, stfu
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 No.392547

>>392518
>our wiki
sauce
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 No.392567

It's called memory holing. In about 50 years the USSR will be a myth akin to atlantis. Capitalism will never be named and instead be accepted as the eternal normal for mankind.
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 No.392577

>>392547
https://leftypedia.org/
You can find the link, and other like it, in the Feedback sticky >>163675
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 No.392582

File: 1626895488937.jpg ( 86.33 KB , 669x441 , censored soviet gdp graph.jpg )

>>392330
>They make graphs disappear
Here this graph might be affected as well, it used to be very easy to find it, but not anymore. It's a "rare graph" now, save it while you can.
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 No.397726

>>392582
2 questions, what is this graph and where is it from? What's the source?
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 No.397733

Is this a new thing for you guys? Literally look up anything about “AES” countries in their native language on google-based search engines. Anti-communist blogs and orgs always get in the front row.
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 No.397754

>>397733
What is "AES"?
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 No.397759

>>397754
The good guys.
Actually Existing Socialism (USSR, Cuba, etc…)

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