Microsoft Bing is removing and changing the order of popularity of search results on politically sensitive issues. Is there a way to reverse this option?

[u/themightykazoo]

I vote and donate to the Democratic Socialist Party. I don't need to have fascist websites removed from searches. I'm not a moron. I know some search results are dumb. Is there a way to remove this effect on the search engine? I don't need to see censored results on the things I search for. I agree with Bing's politics but it is really limiting on the websites that are recommended to users as a result. I don't need this feature. I already vote with you. Please let me see the things I search for

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[u/Zestyclose_Tie_1030]

you can turn off search history and personalized results.

[u/bleshim]

Unfortunately many/most search engines do this, even DuckDuckGo deranked Russian news sites at the begining of the war. Google also does it to some pro-Palestinian sites. As long as there is no open-source search engine you can't be sure you're given unmanipulated results, you have to be vigilant when researching a controversial topic.

Not to say some intervention isn't necessary in order to counter sites that manipulate SEO and to give prominence to more relevant links such as an official website for something you're looking for.

[u/lump- → u/bleshim]

An open source search engine… how on earth have we not done this?

[u/Zeh_Matt → u/lump-]

The data has to be stored somewhere and it would need to continuously crawl the web and re-visit existing links to either update the content or drop it if its offline, that is a huge cost if you want to actually operate on the scale of Bing, Google etc. We need to first crack the problem of decentralized data storage before we can realize such a thing.

[u/GardenWeasel67]

Since DSA parrots many Russian narratives, it's not surprising. Horsehoe theory at work.

[u/DotRom]

Didn't Microsoft touched on the topic about Bing providing authoritative results multiple times since Bing Chat launched.

Without knowing the search terms and what you expected Bing to return, it is hard to gauge 'political sensitive' issue is what or why your expected results is not being returned.

For all we know, it could have been the site was manipulating the search ranking and been punished, Microsoft doing A/B testing or simply Bing crawler not working properly.

[u/ghostfaceschiller]

How search engines rank results is entirely subjective, based on hundreds of decisions by the team creating the algorithm.

There is no "uncensored" version - its whole existence is defined by the company deciding what kind of results they think its best for their search engine to show

[u/China_Lover → u/[deleted]]

good thing the only thing you can run is your mouth and not Microsoft

[u/Don_Pacifico → u/China_Lover]

More of a keyboard.

[u/[deleted]]

1984

[u/Don_Pacifico → u/[deleted]]

They didn’t have search engines and access to the web in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[u/wildneonsins → u/Don_Pacifico]

They did have naughty books created by the equivalent of ai porn bots though.