Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Search Engines Match Up - Why Say No to Google?" video.
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Perfect example of Google manipulating search results... people were claiming that 6,000 people had died in Puerto Rico because of the hurricane a couple years back, and I wanted to know how many people died in Puerto Rico in a typical month. This information always has been readily available for countries, US States, and Cities.
Every search on Google pointed to articles about how the president was responsible for the 6,000 deaths in Puerto Rico. Google would no longer give me the links to the raw data to do a comparison.
Several months later, I did the same search and I could get the data unfiltered, and guess what.... 6,000 people die in Puerto Rico every month. And so if what the press was saying was true, you'd expect to get an anomaly for the month and of course for the year. In reality, the data showed that no additional people had died in Puerto Rico, making the point that the big tech companies, including Google manipulate results not just for business purposes but for political purposes.
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