Google definitely biased…

Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 11 09:23:11 PDT 2014


On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 15:37:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/11/14, 8:34 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> Am 11.08.2014 17:23, schrieb Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d:
>>> … so what's new?
>>>
>>> I was trying to search for web-based material on D ranges and 
>>> Go slices
>>> to see if they are basically the same thing. As soon as 
>>> golang is a
>>> query term, no other language makes it onto the front page of 
>>> the query
>>> results, cf. "dlang range slice golang"
>>>
>>> Google definitely try to push Go :-)
>>>
>>
>> I've just heard a few days ago from someone who *always* gets 
>> the
>> suggestion to search for "golang" instead of "dlang", so it's 
>> not even
>> possible to properly search for dlang results alone.
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=dlang%20-golang&gws_rd=ssl
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if there's some manual biasing at work, 
> but I don't think there is.
>
> Andrei

Assuming Google trends is also biased, it would seem not:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=dlang%2C%20golang


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