Google: 'We never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment'
businessinsider.com
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Example: Last week, the Google doodle celebrated the 107th birthday of Ismat Chughtai, a deceased liberal Muslim Indian female author born in 1911 who wrote about gender equality and class conflict from a Marxist perspective. Her novels and short stories gained niche popularity in world of Urdu literature and in 1976 she won the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
The Google doodle for the little known event called "Easter"? Nothing for the last 18 years. [1] [2]
[1] https://www.google.com/doodles?q=easter
[2] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/RES...
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I'd like to think that their perspective doesn't affect the actual search results though.
How is Google biased for not wanting to display an Easter doodle? Do they have doodles for other religious holidays?
They do.
(1) Chinese New Year (Buddhist/Taoist) 2016-02-18, 2014-01-31, 2013-02-10
(2) Qixi (Chinese mythology) 2018-08-17, 2017-08-28, 2016-08-09, ...
(3) Tu B'Av (Jewish) 2016-08-19, 2015-07-31, 2014-08-11, 2012-08-03
(4) Holi (Hindi) 2018-03-02, 2017-03-13, 2017-03-12, 2016-03-24, ...
But even if they didn't, it would still be a historical/cultural bias to exclude all events with religious origins. In that case, a secular bias.
The second link (Washington Post) made it to #8 before being pushed off the front page 20 minutes later.
The third and original link (BBC) was on the front page for almost 20 minutes until it was flagged and removed from results altogether.
EDIT: Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17862275 (Washington Examiner) was flagged/removed.