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Unrest in Bangladesh is revealing the bias at the heart of Google’s search engine

By Abdul Aziz, Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University

Google’s search engine handles the vast majority of online searches worldwide. By one estimate, it fields 6.3 million queries every second.

Because of the search engine’s enormous scale, its outputs can have outsized effects. And, while Google’s search results are shaped by ostensibly neutral rules and processes,

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