{"id":162829,"date":"2015-06-30T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=162829"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:39:01","slug":"google-searches-give-services-priority-yield-inferior-results-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/google-searches-give-services-priority-yield-inferior-results-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Google searches give own services priority, \u2018yield inferior results\u2019 \u2014 new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hard-hitting new study claims that Google\u2019s search results not only favor its own internal websites over competing destinations, but also degrade social welfare and freeze out potential rivals in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The claim itself isn\u2019t a new one, but the results of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/lutherlowe\/wu-l\" target=\"_blank\">this<br \/>\nstudy<\/a> are particularly notable since the research was<br \/>\nconducted with the help of Tim Wu, an American academic who<br \/>\ncreated the phrase \u201cnet neutrality\u201d and has pushed for a freer<br \/>\ninternet.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBy leveraging its dominance in search to promote its<br \/>\ninternal content, Google is reducing social welfare \u2014 leaving<br \/>\nconsumers with lower quality results and worse matches,\u201d<\/em> the<br \/>\nstudy, which was conducted with the help of researchers from the<br \/>\nYelp review website, reads.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the researchers showed users two different types of<br \/>\nresults for local searches. One was conducted through Google,<br \/>\nwhich filtered results and typically placed Google content near<br \/>\nthe top, and the other used Google\u2019s own algorithm to pick out<br \/>\nthe results that scored most relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the team found that users were almost 50 percent more<br \/>\nlikely to engage in results that did not give Google services<br \/>\npriority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/270577-google-search-favors-inferior-results\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hard-hitting new study claims that Google\u2019s search results not only favor its own internal websites over competing destinations, but also degrade social welfare and freeze out potential rivals in doing so. The claim itself isn\u2019t a new one, but the results of this study are particularly notable since the research was conducted with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}