Google suppresses Libertarian presidential candidate's campaign website: Chase Oliver is the first Libertarian running for president in 2024 to be listed by Ballotpedia as a "notable" candidate. However, Google refuses to acknowledge his candidacy. In a Google search for "Libertarian presidential campaign websites," Oliver's campaign site was not on the first page of search results provided. The identical search conducted in Bing and in DuckDuckGo returned Oliver's site as the second result. Google's results instead included candidates from previous elections, such as Gary Johnson and Jo Jorgensen, generic sites about the Libertarian party and other dated sites about past elections.

Similar results were previously found in a study on other presidential candidates, as described below.

Is Google shilling for Biden? It appears so, as its search engine once again buried Republican “presidential campaign websites.” 

Google's search engine failed to produce even-handed results in multiple searches performed by MRC Free Speech America over the course of a week prior to the Republican presidential primary debate. Researchers broadly searched for “presidential campaign websites” as well as two additional searches specifying the party affiliation of the candidates. When MRC searched for “republican presidential campaign websites,” only two candidates’ websites appeared on the first page in the search results — a Democrat candidate and a Republican who is polling at less than half a percent. 

Democratic Party candidate Marianne Williamson’s website somehow found its way onto the first page. So did Will Hurd, who has yet to garner enough support to make it to the debate stage. His website was the only Republican candidate’s website to appear in the search results. His website came up as the third result while the campaign websites of former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Strive Asset Management co-founder Vivek Ramaswamy, Former Vice President Mike Pence, Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were nowhere to be found on the first page of results. [Neither did Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver.]

The search did include a link to a Library of Congress page that referenced Trump’s 2020 campaign website but even the link referenced was dead.

“These results are so outrageous,” said MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider. “Google is either the most incompetent search engine on the planet, or it’s intentional. This is not a coincidence.”