It ranked celebrities based on the percentage of search results that were found to be damaging and on how harmful those sites turned out to be.

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As we noted above, we found that search results differed heavily depending how you word your sentence, putting a place before a hobby might garner results, but flip them and you may get nothing.

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I'm Ed Gordon and this is NEWS AND NOTES. The Internet is a great tool for research, but how many times have you found yourself overwhelmed by search results, when you're trying to find something fairly simple?

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It found Google had not biased its search results to favour its products.

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Alongside the growing sophistication of net users is a lack of awareness about paid-for results that many search engines provide alongside lists of websites found by indexing the web.

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Through a Google search, Nissen found a Web site put up by Glaxo that contained results from all of its clinical trials.

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Through a Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) search, Nissen found a Web site put up by Glaxo that contained results from all of its clinical trials.

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The two grad students soon found their results were a step above those of any other kind of search.

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This means that the first results shown are exactly what all other consumers found as the most important for that specific search in that category.

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They found that without the advertising, users still clicked through as the results appeared on the search engine anyway.

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