On Friday, I published an article about misinformation running high in Microsoft Bing search queries results based on a study conducted at Stanford by two men, a student and a postdoctoral scholar.
For me, the study presented unanswered questions based on the findings, which claim that Microsoft Bing returns disinformation and misinformation in query results at “a significantly higher rate than Google.”
I wondered how personalization or location of the IP address might skew the query results. So I reached out to ask the authors of the report — Bing’s Top Search Results Contain an Alarming Amount of Disinformation.
These two questions also were concerns of the authors who designed the study.
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Source: Bing Query Disinformation: Digging Deeper Into Stanford’s Research 12/23/2019