Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling ‘Idiot’ Shows Donald Trump

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Frederick Foresight, Dec 12, 2018.

  1. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ceo-sundar-pichai_us_5c10d56de4b0ac53717a0d26

    Search for the term “idiot” on Google and several photographs of President Donald Trump will appear high in the image results.

    On Tuesday, the search engine giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai had the task of explaining to members of Congress why that happens during a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee.

    Pichai refuted Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s (D-Calif.) tongue-in-cheek suggestion that it was down to “a little man sitting behind the curtain” who was skewing the results against conservatives — saying the company doesn’t “manually intervene” in searches.

    “We provide search today for any time you type in a keyword. We, as Google, have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of their pages in our index, and we take the keyword and match it against the pages and rank them based on over 200 signals,” Pichai explained.

    “Things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it. And based on that, you know, at any given time, we try to find the best results for that query,” he added, during the hearing that also threw up several other self-owns for lawmakers.
     
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Hint: Same reason 'cat' gives pictures of cats, 'dog' gives dogs, and 'whore' gives your mom.

    :)
     
  3. So an emoji gives you license to say that?
     
    Cuddles likes this.
  4. It did the same thing when Bush was POTUS.

    And they actually try to say they aren’t biased. What a joke
     
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  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    If you don't recognize it... let me explain the quip to you and provide the context. It is the standard explanation used to state why something shows up in google.
     
  6. I don't know. The explanation sounded fairly convincing...
     
    Tony Stark likes this.
  7. People always think a sitting president is an idiot so why is GOP upset right now. If you searched blow job or intern I am sure Clinton came up in the late 90s.
     
  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

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