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Is Searching The Internet Manipulating You? Voting Edition.

August 5, 2015 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

Research (and common sense) tells us that search engine rankings dramatically impact our lives, influencing what we buy, what we want, and how we act. People are totally sucked in by the organized list of results. Eye-tracking studies show that people scan search engine results and then fixate on the highest results, even when lower-ranked…

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