SEO Tycoon

**techguru** · 10:36 PM

What do you think? See the article:

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchd...le.php/2159431

**vangogh** · 05-02-2006, 12:36 AM

Seems like nitpicking to me. Everything that has any kind of human involvement will have some kind of bias in it. Yeah it's true that a human being added their own bias when programming the search engine, but if we're going to look at that as biased then find me something a human being was involved in that isn't biased.

**Visio** · 05-08-2006, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by vangogh

Seems like nitpicking to me. Everything that has any kind of human involvement will have some kind of bias in it. Yeah it's true that a human being added their own bias when programming the search engine, but if we're going to look at that as biased then find me something a human being was involved in that isn't biased.

I don't agree with that. I know for a fact that Google is not biased and I don't believe any of the rest are either. Google delivers results based on backlinks and relevance. They are not biased

**stOx** · 05-08-2006, 05:55 PM

The point of a good search engine to be bias isn't it?
Other wise it would just display a random set of results.

The google algo is designed to display good sites first, and rubbish sites later.

**Visio** · 05-08-2006, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by stOx

The point of a good search engine to be bias isn't it?
Other wise it would just display a random set of results.

The google algo is designed to display good sites first, and rubbish sites later.

That is one way of putting it :P How can a Algo be biased?

**torrnado_seo** · 05-08-2006, 09:56 PM

I believe bias exists in everything to some degree, however I believe the authors of this study are only engaging in mathmatical theory as this "bias" would not help or hurt us in any way.

**the_host** · 05-09-2006, 02:37 AM

The SE's could never be completely biased. The internet is just too big for them to have a hand in everything.

**crush123** · 05-09-2006, 04:24 PM

if a person is going to visit websites and rank them, then surely he will show bias.
a computer algo runs on certain principles and they cant show any bias.