Is Bing "Managing" Search Suggestions
Go into Google and search "Windows 8 is " and you will get auto-suggestions "Crap, Rubbish, Awful, Terrible, Horrible, Slow, A Disaster, A Flop". When this was first noticed, folks suggested Google was playing games, though personally having tried Windows 8 a couple of times I thought the suggestions were dead on. So Don Charisma tried the same thing with Microsoft's search engine Bing:
It appears that Microsoft got the message and has done a little managing of their algorithm, because now you get this:
Cool? Great? Amazing? Seriously, who are they fooling? Even Yahoo, which is powered by Bing (I think) doesn't give this kind of result
Matthew Slyfield:
Duh.
February 5, 2014, 3:52 pmRick C:
So even after the "managing", negative suggestions outweigh positives 5:3, and Yahoo has 2:10 positives. That's pretty weak sauce.
You've really got a bee in your bonnet about Windows 8, don't you? Did you complain when Windows Vista, XP, and 95 looked different too?
February 6, 2014, 12:24 pmKeith Turnbull:
If I do a google search of "windows 8 is cool" I get 446,000,000 results.
If I do a google search of "windows 8 is crap" I get 32,800,000 results.
I would say google is the one playing with the 'auto-suggestions'. It just shows that when a confirmation bias goes into your confirmation you can't see the bias for what it appears to be.
February 10, 2014, 7:41 am