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[yearight3]

It's too bad because Google is a 2nd rate search engine that is more interested in maximizing revenue than providing an objective search. But then again, the college-aged generation is motivated by commercialism anyway

[AySz88]

As presented in this article, the report's conclusion is ridiculous. Yes, sites that get the most attention get the highest results: isn't this what you want the search engine to do? You want the sites that the most people associate with "turkey burgers", right? This is a search engine; it has no obligation to unpopular sites, even new ones.
Besides that, since every Cornell undergrad gets broadband in their dorm (if they live on campus), there's normally almost no penalty to opening a bunch of pages in separate tabs, or clicking the first link and clicking "back" if it's irrelevant, or even performing a crude search first (with many irrelevant results) to revise later if necessary. If they were, say, regulated to a very slow connection or a maximum number of clicks or only a single tab, the results would be more telling.
I'm a Cornell undergrad student that'd probably fall right in line with these other students. I trust Google's results, not because I don't know their algorithms, but because I do.
Edited by author: added "as presented in this article" since some other media coverage portrays the words in a much more reasonable light.