Yes, and you can easily find articles about this from 10 years ago.
...google result manipulation...
apperently you dont realize that google (and most other SE) a) never claimed to provide you all resuls (if you have a minimal technical understanding - for obvious reasons) and b) its pretty much their core functionality to sort, filter rank etc. pp. (aka manipulate) the results
No, it's really not.
Yes, and you can easily find articles about this from 10 years ago.
apperently you dont realize that google (and most other SE) a) never claimed to provide you all resuls (if you have a minimal technical understanding - for obvious reasons) and b) its pretty much their core functionality to sort, filter rank etc. pp. (aka manipulate) the results