Hard-Coding Bias in Google "Algorithmic" Search Results - Benjamin Edelman
This page gives full-sized screenshots preserving the behavior discussed in Hard-Coding Bias in Google "Algorithmic" Search Results.
Stock ticker symbols present prominent links to Google Finance
Health searches present prominent links to Google Health
Corresponding searches without commas yield no such links to Google Health or Google Finance
Other examples of favored treatment of Google services and partners
Search for flights, and Google links to an arbitrarily-selected partner, without disclosure of where the link points.
Search for a movie title, and Google links to its own Movies service.
Patents -- unhelpful Google service links yielding error messages
Search for [patent 9999999], and Google inserts a top-listed result to its own Patents service, where only an error message appears.
Links to other Google services pervade Google's [justin bieber] results
