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US Congress asks Google CEO to explain why the photo of Donald Trump comes up when you type “idiot”

When you type in "Idiot" in Google search, photos of US president Donald Trump comes up and Republicans in the US Congress grilled Google CEO Sundar Pichai about this.

Republicans allege that Google's search results are biased and that Democrats who work at Google choose liberal websites over conservative views for prime placement on Google services like Google search.

Several Republicans on the committee, including Rep. Lamar Smith, said there was "political bias baked into" Google's culture.
Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren gave Google CEO a chance to explain and convince them that there's no conservative bias in Google.

Lofgren said to Pichai:
Manipulation of search results - I think it's important to talk about how search works. Right now, if you Google the word 'idiot,' under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that.

How would that happen? How does search work so that that would occur?

Pichai replied:
We provide search today for - anytime you type in a keyword, we as Google, we have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of webpages in our index. We take the keyword and match it against webpages and rank them based on over 200 signals, things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it.

And based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best results for that query. Then we evaluate them with external raters to make sure, and they evaluate it to objective guidelines, and that's how we make sure the process is working.

Lofgren added:

So it's not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we're going to show the user - it's basically a compilation of what users are generating, and trying to sort through that information.

And Pichai replied:

Last year we served over 3 trillion searches. Just as a fact, every single day, 15% of the searches Google sees, we have never seen them before.
So this is working at scale. We don't manually intervene on any particular search result.

See more:
https://zenithnaija.com/us-congress-asks-google-to-explain-why-trumps-photo-shows-when-you-type-idiot/

Google should better replace it with Buhari picture.

Jesus.. I just did that on google, low and behold.. Trump picture came up.

Waiting for trump next action

It's search results from several pages across the internet. Google has nothing to do with it

Op copied this word for word from another site and neither credited the source nor added his own spin to the article. I hope to see the day when these copy and paste bloggers will start getting sued for millions for their copyright infringement. It's not by force to blog. If you cannot come up with your own content, look for something else to do.

Google don enter one chance

dominique:
It's search results from several pages across the internet. Google has nothing to do with it

I tried typing the word "failure" and this picture popped up. This has nothing to do with Google. .

JasonScoolari:
I tried typing the word "failure" and this picture popped up. This has nothing to do with Google. .

That's not what popped out in my own Google. Your Google must be made in China

dominique:
That's not what popped out in my own Google. Your Google must be made in China

Oh, so you've a "personal" Google?

No wonder.

Its true oo especially when you search via google images

I just tried it now. So funny.

I think the US Congress should be indexed with the word Stupid for asking google this stupid question.

The way the google search engine works is through indexed words. Meaning if a lot of blogs and sites associate trump with IDIOT then, the search bug would produce the query based on it's ranking on indexed list. It is not google's fault that a lot of people online has tagged trump an idiot.

Lets try the word lifeless and see what we get.

Modified.

Try searching lifeless president i think the nigerian senate should also sermon google for the embarrassing result

Lolzzzzzz




Before who him be before



Google just made my evening

Good one

Can't stop laughing!

This is one guy that has degrading adjective for whoever he encounters. Why is he worried about about this harmless word?

JasonScoolari:
I tried typing the word "failure" and this picture popped up. This has nothing to do with Google. .

It should be replaced with Buhari's photo

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How did I know??
because it's written on syrup bottles
"shake well before use".

help me ask him why it shows buhari whenever I search "lifeless president"

Hehe... Even Google bots know the guy is an Idiot


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Press like if you just tried it

What?!

JasonScoolari:
I tried typing the word "failure" and this picture popped up. This has nothing to do with Google. .

We know you’re lieing . But continue

laugh wan kee me here... why wil sombody b searching for idiot to extent that he wil go an check picture.

I bet "Okechukwu Buhari" pops up when nitwit is typed

See the idiot calling somebody lifeless

They need to change it to buhari the terrorist. Nonsense.

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Google has nothing to do with it. I guess during the elections, a lot of internet users may have called Trump an idiot and the search engine sort of filed it away and ranked it.

Maybe he needs to come over and explain to us too why I should just type life and lifeless president shows up