Google has been accused of [[liberal]] bias; for several years, searching for phrase "miserable failure" returned the biography page of [[George W. Bush]]<ref>[http://boingboing.net/2007/01/26/bush_no_longer_miser.html Bush no longer "miserable failure": Google tackles googlebombs]</ref> due to an exploit of its search algorithm, and it consistently includes links to the liberally-biased [[Wikipedia]] on its first page of results. A reason for this is that its search algorithm gives a higher rank to sites which are linked to by many other sites; the interconnected nature of the Wiki model necessarily improves the ranking of Wikipedia pages. | Google has been accused of [[liberal]] bias; for several years, searching for phrase "miserable failure" returned the biography page of [[George W. Bush]]<ref>[http://boingboing.net/2007/01/26/bush_no_longer_miser.html Bush no longer "miserable failure": Google tackles googlebombs]</ref> due to an exploit of its search algorithm, and it consistently includes links to the liberally-biased [[Wikipedia]] on its first page of results. A reason for this is that its search algorithm gives a higher rank to sites which are linked to by many other sites; the interconnected nature of the Wiki model necessarily improves the ranking of Wikipedia pages. |