Our goal, this time, is to explore filter bubbles to see if it really has an effect on our search results or if it really exists.

First of all, we have to know what filter bubbles are. They are web results that appear based on your search habits.

In our experiment, my partner from Bio-med  science academy and I were supposed  to search a topic. The topic we used was the US selling weapons to Taiwan, so our keyword was “US sells weapons to Taiwan.”.  Our results were pretty similar, but our third result is different. Mine was WSJ, but my partner was Wikipedia. The Wikipedia result is 5th on the page.

Our next experiment was using another country’s search engine. As it turns out, the search results are different, because on Taiwan’s search engine, I’ve got WSJ on third, and on Australia’s search engine, I’ve got reuters on the third one. This data shows that countries limits what people can view on the internet. I also learned that different people will have different results, because their search habits are different.

Should we be concerned in filter bubbles?

In my opinion, filter bubbles is a problem, because what you see on the internet is what the government wants you to see. Governments decides what you see and what you don’t see on the internet. Some useful websites might be blocked by the government. The internet is created to give people full knowledge. The government should give people both perspectives, not government choosing which perspective you should see. The internet should be used to let people share customs and information.