Is the Internet politically slanted?

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by hpgoodboy, Nov 15, 2006.

  1. #1
    There are 2 main political parties and as far as I know, the population
    favors them usually roughly 50/50.

    Now I assume that there are an equal documents writen on each party.

    Interestingly the 3 major search engines tell a different story:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=republican
    Results 1 - 10 of about 97,900,000 for republican

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=democrat
    Results 1 - 10 of about 55,400,000 for democrat

    http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geusaT3VtFIOUA6Z1XNyoA?p=republican&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
    1 - 10 of about 87,100,000 for republican

    http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=democrat&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
    1 - 10 of about 55,400,000 for democrat

    http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=republican&FORM=MSNH
    republican Page 1 of 6,421,627 results

    http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=democrat&FORM=MSNH
    democrat Page 1 of 3,068,701 results
     
    hpgoodboy, Nov 15, 2006 IP
  2. Rick_Michael

    Rick_Michael Peon

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    #2
    What's your opinion from this?
     
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  3. Lexiseek

    Lexiseek Banned

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    The Republicans have been in power for a long time. They would undoubtedly have more pages created about them.
     
    Lexiseek, Nov 16, 2006 IP
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    Hmm okay...

    Maybe someone built an AdSense empire using information about Republicans?
     
    save-a-family, Nov 16, 2006 IP
  5. chulium

    chulium Well-Known Member

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    I don't get what the point of searching for a certain party on a search engine proves... that there's more on the Internet about that particular subject... perhaps... is all?

    I read your title, quote:

    Isn't everything?
     
    chulium, Nov 16, 2006 IP