Have you recently used Google to search for something slightly out of accepted-by-mainstream compared to search engines like Yandex? I'm not saying Russian propaganda is not real, but it's a helpful guide to compare and contrast the results specially relevant results that is being omitted by Google[0]. Of course this is mainly because we have hate speech societal norms, hate speech laws and such, but how do we know the countries on this map with low "Freedom Score" don't have their own reasons for removing content? Are we to judge their actions but our standards? If so why don't we just declare the world must obey our rule of law or else! Since there cannot in principle be any justifiable deviation from it. Unless we want to only give the _perception_ of tolerance for others' points of view, but not a real one.
[0] I'm not going to provide an example, shouldn't be too hard to come up with a slightly controversial example yourself.
I've noticed the discrepancies too. Even Bing and DuckDuckGo (vs Google) will return drastically different results, particularly that aren't in line with 'mainstream' thinking.
I know Google did not start out like this - 'don't be evil' - but this is how they ended up... Curating truth. It's really sad.
I don't believe in unlimited free speech, but the bar should be set as low as what is permitted by the 1A, at least in the United States which grants maximum freedom under the law.
I tried "us election fraud" on both sites in private mode. The results are certainly very different but I don't see any indication of google omitting anything. You're already using a throwaway so you might as well provide some specifics.
You know throwaway accounts can get banned and their comments "dead" too, right?
Try the founder of Vice, let's say you want to listen to his Podcast by just searching for his name, good luck doing that on Google, on Yandex it's the 5th result down.
I looked up "Suroosh Alvi". The results are a little different but IMO pretty similar content-wise, nothing jarring. I do see the 5th result you mentioned on yandex missing on google's front page, but all of the google results seem pretty relevant, and the link you mentioned seems to be hosted on vice.com, so I'm not sure if I buy the idea that they're trying to hide that link. Has this guy recently done something controversial? Searching his name on both engines he just seems like a regular guy? Why do you think google would be censoring him?
I tried Tim Pool and Gavin Mcinnes both have pretty similar results on both search engines. Besides, google is totally fine with Tim Pool, that guy has one of the biggest political channels on YouTube.
Tbf, I know very little about Tim Pool. I did see the viral tweet where he claimed the reason he was voting for Trump was because of the Kenosha shooter, which reads very "right accelerationist" to me.
The most offensive thing is not even the censorship, but how awful and almost completely useless search engines have become. Years ago I used to be able to find almost anything, no matter how obscure it was, if I tried hard enough. Today I most often just give up, because it sometimes seems like you can't find the answers to even really basic questions. I don't know what they did, but every search engine is now a complete garbage. They're now basically just shortcuts to the actual search features on websites that everyone already knows, when you're too lazy to type in the URL or click on a bookmark to the actual website.
I've found the opposite. Google promotes stalking sites[0] to the very top of results for their targets in a way that no other search engine does. Not Bing, no Yandex, not any of the little indie engines. You have to go dozens of pages into results to find them, but they're always on the very first page with Google despite being tiny sites compared to the results they displace.
[0] also not going to name them and give them promotion
[0] I'm not going to provide an example, shouldn't be too hard to come up with a slightly controversial example yourself.