[9530jh9054ven]

Kinda depends on the question you ask. Type in, "What is the best way to commit suicide painlessly?" into a search engine.

The results on DuckDuckGo, Google, and Bing aren't drastically different (setting aside the big banner), but Google's top result for that is suicide prevention website, at least for me. And it's relatively constant when the search is, "Best way to kill myself," "Effective suicide methods," "How to end my life," and other similar synonyms for suicide.

To be fair, it's Hard to say whether it's bias or very skilled SEO. But the first result at least for me is consistently a suicide prevention site.

[shitlord]

Here's what Yandex gives you:

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=how+to+commit+suicide&...

Yandex is probably biased as a result of being subject to Russian law, but there is far less curation compared to western search engines.

[dragonwriter]

> To be fair, it’s Hard to say whether it’s bias or very skilled SEO.

IIRC it being publicly intentional, not suicide prevention SEO that only affects Google.

So, I guess, technically “bias”.

[machiaweliczny]

Do you think it's bad? IMO it should offer help to people in their lowest moments if it can instead of convincing them that suicide might be good idea. I think given that it still should give answer but I would like to get compelling argument why such bias is bad.

[9530jh9054ven]

I'm neither equipped nor capable to make a judgement on whether it's good or bad.

FWIW I don't personally like it. It feels like a cheap impersonal slogan thrown around that embodies the the idea of charity without work or risk. It reflects more on the speaker that wants to feel like they're doing something, and imposes an idea that wanting to genuinely die is the worst possible thing ever, when to me, there are much worse places to go then being actively suicidal.

On the other hand I'm not so foolish as to think that this would never help anyone. And if makes someone step back from the edge, perhaps it is not a waste. I don't know well enough either say with any certainty though.