How Google interferes with its search algorithms and changes your results

The internet giant uses blacklists and contractors to shape what you see. A team of reporters from The Wall Street Journal have conducted this remarkable investigation into how much power Google yields in the results a user gets from using its search engine. While the company highlights they "do not use human curation to collect or arrange the results on a page," the findings of this report show a very different picture. Some of the views shared here were not those of the authors but according to people familiar with the matter.