In the last few years I have noticed it has become much harder to rank sites on Google. I knew it was in part due to using machine learning in ranking where things are based much more on big data statistics and less on common sense factors.
However, a recent whistleblower video illuminates why some sites may not rank as high or even be completely removed from search (or the platform all together). Following video has been removed from all major video sharing platforms, so it is quite important to see.
It is so important that some of the responsible people from Google have been called to congressional hearing. Super important points were made by the congressman:
Recently a friend told me that all results were removed from Google for searches related to current Serbia’s leader Aleksandar Vucic (AV) and Serbia’s neighbours Croats.
AV used to say many bad things in regards to Croats during the wars in ’90s, and since he is pro EU oriented, this localized censorship can be perceived as an attempt to ‘help’ forget the past and love thy neighbour.
Very interesting case of censorship. For a query from Belgrade, Serbia, Google returns 63 results only for a phrase in Serbian language aleksandar vucic hrvati, while quarter of a million of results for English language query where ‘hrvati’ is substituted with ‘croats’: aleksandar vucic croats.
