author of that study dr robert epstein senior research psychologist at the american institute for behavioral research and technology joins me on the line great to have you on dr epstein google completely disagrees with the i should say first of all they they said there's no way this this can be true but you disagree is it really possible the results of google searches can influence the way people vote. well there's no question about that i've been doing randomized controlled studies for more than six years measuring quite precisely the impact that they can have on people's thinking and behavior and purchases and elections but this monitoring project that i conducted that this shows beyond any question that there was significant liberal bias in google search results but not in search results from being and yahoo unfortunately about ninety percent of the searches conducted on google not big and yahoo so. google really is the deciding factor. in close races in fact we calculate that upwards of twenty five percent of the national elections in the world are being decided and then you give an example of how some body mig