More Election Interference! Google Search Buries Biden Opponents
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 today's 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 businessman and author Perry Johnson, who has filed a complaint with the Republican National Committee regarding its decision not to allow him onto the debate stage.]
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.”
Indeed, when researchers searched “democrat presidential campaign websites,” the tech giant pushed its Democratic party darlings right to the top. Google had no problem finding President Joe Biden’s campaign website, which appeared as the first search result. Williamson’s website similarly appeared as the second result. However, Biden’s most formidable challenger in the primary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s website was notably missing.
In a third query, MRC Free Speech America researchers performed a search excluding party affiliation. In a search for “presidential campaign websites,” President Biden’s campaign website appeared as the second search result along with Democratic Party candidate Marianne Williamson’s campaign website, which came up as the fifth result. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) 2020 presidential campaign website came up as the twelfth result for the second time now. But just as before, Google search did not produce a single Republican candidate’s website nor Kennedy’s on the first page of results. When the same query was run again five days later, Williamson and Warren were each ranked one position lower on the first page, and Kennedy’s campaign website appeared as the eleventh result.