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> turning the "conservative search results" lever

It may not have been algorithmic, but it definitely happened.

You know this how? Because you were that guy?

A quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch...

I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened.

Edit: more context in thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790

Mellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.

I lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.

Update: here's a Twitter thread linked from Google's Tweet denying any bias in the incident. Make of it what you will.

https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160

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