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## Related topics - [data voids](/docs/2023/10/11/data-voids) - [autocomplete in web search](/docs/2023/10/11/autocomplete-in-web-search) - [‘Trending’ in search](/docs/2023/10/11/trending-in-search) ## Research, Reporting, and other Writing ### @caulfield2019data Google This Ploy ### @haider2023google > What is notable in the post, however, are two calls to do a Google search using specific search terms that are presented verbatim in quotation marks; loosely translated, the post suggests at the very beginning, to ‘Google “effect of carbon dioxide on the climate”’ and as a final statement that seems to sum up the post and give it a final legitimacy: ‘Go ahead and google “cheating in the climate debate.”’ > signposting to ‘googling’ > appeals to ‘googling’ > the appeal to ‘google’ co-opts Google as a seemingly impartial information broker ### @robertson2023identifying