Google search favors Harris over Trump, places articles with ‘leftist bias’ atop GOP nominee’s site: study

FIRST ON FOX -- Google has featured Vice President Kamala Harris’ run website successful a much desirable determination connected its hunt motor results than former President Trump’s authoritative site, according to a caller survey by the Media Research Center. 

"Google is trying to stack the platform successful favour of Kamala Harris," Media Research Center laminitis Brent Bozell told Fox News Digital. 

"Google's hunt motor pushes left-wing media articles favoring Kamala Harris and slamming Donald Trump," helium added. "Don't spot Google searches."

MRC Free Speech America researchers analyzed the Sept. 6 hunt results of 2 abstracted searches: "Donald Trump statesmanlike contention 2024" and "Kamala Harris statesmanlike contention 2024."

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Google has featured Vice President Kamala Harris’ run website successful a much desirable determination connected its hunt motor results than erstwhile President Trump’s authoritative site, according to a caller survey by the Media Research Center. 

The blimpish media watchdog wanted to find wherever Google Search would presumption each candidate’s statesmanlike run website but recovered antithetic results, which favored Harris. 

"In the past, Google buried the run websites of Republican candidates. Now the hunt elephantine precise intelligibly pads its hunt results astir governmental candidates with leftist bequest quality articles, galore of which are hostile to Republicans and either neutral oregon favorable toward Democrats," MRC Free Speech America subordinate exertion Gabriela Pariseau wrote erstwhile recapping the findings. 

"Readers volition person to sift done the biased quality earlier they adjacent spot the integrated results of their searches, fto unsocial a candidate’s website," Pariseau continued. 

When searching for "Donald Trump statesmanlike contention 2024," the erstwhile president's run website appeared sixth successful Google hunt results. 

"But earlier reaching Trump’s website, readers would spot options to click connected 7 articles from left-wing sources. The New York Times, Politico and The Washington Post were listed nether the ‘Top Stories’ panel," Pariseau wrote. 

"Once MRC researchers reached the existent hunt results, Google displayed a nexus to an nonfiction from The Economist titled ‘Donald Trump v Kamala Harris: who’s up successful the polls?’ Additionally, the results showed CNN’s elections leafage on with a nexus to its unrecorded predetermination updates. Google besides displayed a nexus to NBC’s unrecorded predetermination updates page," she added, noting that MRC NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham recovered "blatant leftist bias" successful galore articles suggested by Google. 

However, erstwhile MRC Free Speech America researchers searched "Kamala Harris statesmanlike contention 2024," her run website was 3rd successful the integrated Google hunt results. In addition, the articles that were suggested were mostly from left-leaning outlets. 

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Former President Trump’s authoritative tract finds itself successful a little desirable determination than Vice President Kamala Harris’ connected Google Search, according to the Media Research Center.  (KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS)

"Nearly each nonfiction that appeared supra Harris’s website successful hunt results related to historiographer Allan Lichtman’s prediction that Harris volition triumph the 2024 election," Pariseau wrote. 

"This overt leftist bias is particularly concerning considering that according to a November 2023 Pew Research survey, a rising fig of American adults person their quality from search," Pariseau continued. "The survey recovered that 15 percent of U.S. adults similar to get their quality from hunt engines which is up from 13 percent successful 2022 and 11 percent successful 2021."

A Google spokesperson dismissed the study. 

"Both run websites consistently look astatine the apical of Search for applicable and communal hunt queries. This study looked astatine a azygous uncommon hunt word connected a azygous time implicit a period ago, and adjacent for that search, some candidates’ websites ranked successful the apical results connected Google," a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Some Google defenders person suggested that Trump’s run tract shows up higher connected Google Search than connected different hunt engines similar Bing and DuckDuckGo. Others person noted that the run website regularly lands arsenic the apical effect erstwhile searching for simply "Donald Trump" connected Google alternatively of "Donald Trump statesmanlike contention 2024."

MRC Free Speech America researchers besides consciousness the placement of Trump and Harris’s websites is noteworthy. A 2023 survey conducted by Search Engine Optimization adept Brian Dean recovered that the sixth effect connected hunt engines -- wherever Google placed Trump’s website -- typically receives conscionable nether fractional arsenic galore click-throughs arsenic the 3rd result, which is wherever Google placed Harris’ website. 

"This comes aft a erstwhile MRC Free Speech America survey that prompted Google with searches astir Kamala Harris recovered that Google favored leftist media outlets astatine a complaint of 17:2 successful Google Search and 19:2 successful the Google News tab crossed 4 queries," Pariseau wrote.

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Google Search favors Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the Media Research Center. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The MRC told Fox News Digital it conducts Google searches "using a peculiar algorithm to bash searches arsenic though they are being performed for the archetypal clip connected what we telephone a ‘clean’ machine oregon telephone with each caller search."

The "clean" machine means that determination is nary anterior hunt past oregon tracking cookies that tin power the results achieved erstwhile doing a search, arsenic anterior hunt past and tracking cookies interaction hunt results. In addition, the MRC algorithm is not logged successful to immoderate accounts portion performing a search. 

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