{"id":15626,"date":"2019-07-26T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pureseo.co.nz\/?p=15626"},"modified":"2019-12-19T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:01:37","slug":"is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is Google biased against websites with certain political leanings? This was just one of the central questions put to Karan Bhatia, Google Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Policy, when he testified before the United States senate on July 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhatia spent much of his time responding to accusations that Google is actively working to suppress conservative media outlets in search results. Conservative senators, meanwhile, are mulling legislation that would roll back third-party protections for content platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s driving this conversation around search engine censorship and where do we go from here? Do conservative politicians and media outlets actually have evidence to support their claims? Let’s examine the evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

Does conservative media appear less frequently than progressive media in search results?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The short answer is yes<\/strong>. However, a statistical reality is not compelling evidence of a search engine conspiracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the results of a study conducted by researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago<\/a>, content from only 20 media outlets account for 50 per cent of news article impressions on Google’s Top Stories, a card snippet on search pages of topical keywords. Of these, the top three – CNN, the New York Times, and The Washington Post – made up 23 per cent of impressions. Although each of these three outlets provide prominent platforms to politically conservative voices, they are generally accepted to frame their journalism within a centre-left perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Audit study of “Top Stories” box on Google search by the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

It’s not bias, it’s SEO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, the disproportionate performance of left-leaning media does not prove conservative politicians’ claims of censorship. To explain the disparity in search results, we need to look no further than good old-fashioned SEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google’s ranking algorithms cannot discern the political bent of a news story or a website. Therefore, in order to believe in the censorship claims made by Republican senators, you would need to believe that Google is manually tweaking search results for topical keywords and events. Such a claim strains credulity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Google’s ranking algorithms are doing is not a case of left vs right but of presence vs absence. In other words, Google is looking for measurable indicators of a website’s expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness<\/strong>. To the extent that these indicators are present, Google rewards a site with higher rankings. To the extent that they are absent, Google lowers that site’s page rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this tell us? It tells us that legacy journalism outlets like the Times and the Post are seen by Google as authoritative for reasons that have nothing to do with the political lean of their content. Factors like Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), load times, keywords, the prevalence of ads, internal linking, and link equity help these pages perform better on the SERPs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other factors could contribute to this difference as well. Better resourced media companies like the Times and the Post can afford to generate more content, allowing them to rank for more keywords. Progressive politics also command a younger and more tech-savvy audience, which may have an affect on a page’s link equity and click-through rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

Appearing on Google News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order for a website to appear on Google News, it must first submit to Google to be accepted. Google assesses each submission manually, based on a strict set of technical <\/a>and content<\/a> guidelines. Google is very transparent about these requirements, and only after all the guidelines are met do they accept a news site to appear on Google’s News page. Once accepted, the performance of a news site is based strictly on SEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

What’s at stake for Google?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google VP Bhatia’s testimony before the US senate has far-reaching implications for Google and other online platforms. What’s at stake is the line separating platforms <\/em>– sites like Google and Facebook which host content but don’t produce or publish it themselves – and publishers<\/em> – news sites that generate and publish content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican senator Josh Hawley has recently introduced the “Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act<\/a>“. This bill would fundamentally alter the line separating these two classifications. The bill ends protections for platforms like Google from liability for the content, posted by users, that appears on their site. Ironically, this bill pressures Google to engage in more <\/em>censorship, not less. It also affords them less wiggle-room to classify and control offensive content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n

SEO lies at the heart of all things Google<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SEO is hardly a new phenomenon, but the conversation surrounding Google’s practices in the legislative arena suggest that many important people still don’t know what it is or why it’s important. If your site is under-performing on search engines, changing the political perspective of your content will make little difference in the SERPs beyond attracting a different audience with different keywords and building a different link profile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best thing you can do is undertake a comprehensive SEO audit<\/a> to ensure you’re meeting the demands of Google’s ranking algorithm. If you would like to arrange yours, contact Pure SEO<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Google biased against websites with certain political leanings? This was just one of the central questions put to Karan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,117,112],"tags":[],"ai":[],"class_list":["post-15626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-google-blog","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIs Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence - Pure SEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google is responding to claims by conservative politicians of bias and censorship against conservative media. We look at the evidence behind these claims.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pure SEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pureseo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-25T22:38:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-19T04:01:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rollan Schott\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Pure_SEO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Pure_SEO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rollan Schott\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rollan Schott\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/411cce715efca3feeccb65335a1fd370\"},\"headline\":\"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-25T22:38:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-19T04:01:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence\"},\"wordCount\":865,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\",\"Google\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2019\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence\",\"name\":\"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence - Pure SEO\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-25T22:38:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-19T04:01:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"Google is responding to claims by conservative politicians of bias and censorship against conservative media. We look at the evidence behind these claims.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"Athens, Greece. September 18, 2019. Young man working with a laptop, Google search engine on the computer screen, office workspace\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Digital Marketing Agency\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blog\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\",\"name\":\"Pure SEO\",\"description\":\"Digital Marketing Agency\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Organization\",\"Place\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#organization\",\"name\":\"Pure SEO\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\",\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-organization-logo\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-organization-logo\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/pureseo\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Pure_SEO\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/pureseo\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCinrMPUg7xZncotAkegPvEA\"],\"address\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-place-address\"},\"telephone\":[],\"openingHoursSpecification\":[{\"@type\":\"OpeningHoursSpecification\",\"dayOfWeek\":[\"Monday\",\"Tuesday\",\"Wednesday\",\"Thursday\",\"Friday\",\"Saturday\",\"Sunday\"],\"opens\":\"09:00\",\"closes\":\"17:00\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/411cce715efca3feeccb65335a1fd370\",\"name\":\"Rollan Schott\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d995014ad341cf72f26d46d922532cac9c3fc7d6d8b577bfda98c798a0075820?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d995014ad341cf72f26d46d922532cac9c3fc7d6d8b577bfda98c798a0075820?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d995014ad341cf72f26d46d922532cac9c3fc7d6d8b577bfda98c798a0075820?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rollan Schott\"},\"description\":\"Rollan Schott is a copywriter with Pure SEO. Rollan was born and raised in the United States, having moved to New Zealand after 4 years teaching and writing in Asia. When he's not churning out quality content at breakneck speed, Rollan is probably busy writing the next great American novel. He may also be idly watching true crime documentaries in his Auckland Central apartment with his wife, Lauren. The latter is more likely than the former.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/rollanschott\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/author\\\/rollan\"},{\"@type\":\"PostalAddress\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-place-address\",\"streetAddress\":\"35 Kawana Street, Northcote\",\"addressLocality\":\"Auckland\",\"postalCode\":\"0627\",\"addressRegion\":\"Auckland\",\"addressCountry\":\"NZ\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/us\\\/blog\\\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/Digital-Marketing-Company-NZ-Pure-SEO.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/pureseo.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/08\\\/Digital-Marketing-Company-NZ-Pure-SEO.png\",\"width\":4159,\"height\":2055,\"caption\":\"Pure SEO\"}]}<\/script>\n<meta name=\"geo.placename\" content=\"Auckland\" \/>\n<meta name=\"geo.region\" content=\"New Zealand\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence - Pure SEO","description":"Google is responding to claims by conservative politicians of bias and censorship against conservative media. We look at the evidence behind these claims.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence","og_url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence","og_site_name":"Pure SEO","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pureseo","article_published_time":"2019-07-25T22:38:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-12-19T04:01:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Rollan Schott","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Pure_SEO","twitter_site":"@Pure_SEO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rollan Schott","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence"},"author":{"name":"Rollan Schott","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#\/schema\/person\/411cce715efca3feeccb65335a1fd370"},"headline":"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence","datePublished":"2019-07-25T22:38:56+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-19T04:01:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence"},"wordCount":865,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg","articleSection":["Blog","Google","News"],"inLanguage":"US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2019","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence","url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence","name":"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence - Pure SEO","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2019-07-25T22:38:56+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-19T04:01:37+00:00","description":"Google is responding to claims by conservative politicians of bias and censorship against conservative media. We look at the evidence behind these claims.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"US","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bigstock-Manager-Working-With-A-Compute-325282414-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707,"caption":"Athens, Greece. September 18, 2019. Young man working with a laptop, Google search engine on the computer screen, office workspace"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Digital Marketing Agency","item":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Is Google Biased Against Certain Political Perspectives? A Look at the Evidence"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#website","url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us","name":"Pure SEO","description":"Digital Marketing Agency","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"US"},{"@type":["Organization","Place"],"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#organization","name":"Pure SEO","url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us","logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-organization-logo"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-organization-logo"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pureseo","https:\/\/x.com\/Pure_SEO","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/pureseo\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCinrMPUg7xZncotAkegPvEA"],"address":{"@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-place-address"},"telephone":[],"openingHoursSpecification":[{"@type":"OpeningHoursSpecification","dayOfWeek":["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday"],"opens":"09:00","closes":"17:00"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us#\/schema\/person\/411cce715efca3feeccb65335a1fd370","name":"Rollan Schott","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d995014ad341cf72f26d46d922532cac9c3fc7d6d8b577bfda98c798a0075820?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d995014ad341cf72f26d46d922532cac9c3fc7d6d8b577bfda98c798a0075820?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d995014ad341cf72f26d46d922532cac9c3fc7d6d8b577bfda98c798a0075820?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Rollan Schott"},"description":"Rollan Schott is a copywriter with Pure SEO. Rollan was born and raised in the United States, having moved to New Zealand after 4 years teaching and writing in Asia. When he's not churning out quality content at breakneck speed, Rollan is probably busy writing the next great American novel. He may also be idly watching true crime documentaries in his Auckland Central apartment with his wife, Lauren. The latter is more likely than the former.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rollanschott\/"],"url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/author\/rollan"},{"@type":"PostalAddress","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-place-address","streetAddress":"35 Kawana Street, Northcote","addressLocality":"Auckland","postalCode":"0627","addressRegion":"Auckland","addressCountry":"NZ"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"US","@id":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/blog\/is-google-biased-against-certain-political-perspectives-a-look-at-the-evidence#local-main-organization-logo","url":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Marketing-Company-NZ-Pure-SEO.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Marketing-Company-NZ-Pure-SEO.png","width":4159,"height":2055,"caption":"Pure SEO"}]},"geo.placename":"Auckland","geo.region":"New Zealand"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15626"},{"taxonomy":"ai","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pureseo.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ai?post=15626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}