Coalition Aims to Expose Google Bias in Search Results

[mrengine]

Yelp and a coalition of like-minded travel and shopping websites have created an elegant demonstration of the way they say Google biases search results in favour of Google's own pages. It's a Chrome browser extension that Yelp says strips Google+ pages from Google's search results, forcing the search engine to display only the "organic" results Google would serve if it wasn't biased in favour of Google's own sites and links.

Source: [timesofindia.indiatimes.com...]

Related (Focus on the User Coalition Website): [focusontheuser.eu...]

The coalition includes Yelp, TripAdvisor, Consumer Watchdog, Fight for the Future and others.

[goodroi]

It is fun to see billion dollar companies fight against other billion dollar companies especially when all involved likely have some level of dirt on their hands.