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Old 12-12-2018, 01:24 PM
 
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Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling ‘Idiot’ Shows Donald Trump

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.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0ac53717a0d26
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Old 12-12-2018, 01:29 PM
 
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This hearing will certainly tie Trumps name to idiot even more, lol.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:37 PM
 
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This hearing will certainly tie Trumps name to idiot even more, lol.
Of similar words like "fool", "moron", "dumb", and "stupid", I wonder why "idiot" was picked.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:40 PM
 
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This hearing will certainly tie Trumps name to idiot even more, lol.
First thing I thought as well. The big hoopla will only draw more attention and ensure a lot more Americans that weren't aware of this search result will now know about it.

I just did it -- Googled "Idiot." Yep, a bunch of Trump pics.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:41 PM
 
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Did the guy respond that search engine responses are somewhat customized based on your search history?
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:42 PM
 
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The real point made was this.
  • Search for "idiot" on Google and you get Trump
  • Search for "idiot" on Duckduckgo, and you do not get Trump.
The bias is obvious.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:43 PM
 
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Its pretty simple. Millions of people hate trump, lots of them post images of him online and many of those images have the tag "idiot" or the file name "idiot" in them, or text/captions with the word idiot, hence lots of search results. Same can be found if you search duckduckgo, yahoo, etc.

Same reason if you search for "pineapple" lots of pineapples show up.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:44 PM
 
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The real point made was this.
  • Search for "idiot" on Google and you get Trump
  • Search for "idiot" on Duckduckgo, and you do not get Trump.
The bias is obvious.
Try again, its basic SEO, thats why it happens.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=idiot&t=hp...ages&ia=images
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:46 PM
 
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Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling ‘Idiot’ Shows Donald Trump

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.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0ac53717a0d26
Simple, because many people think Obama, Hillary, Pelosi or Reid should show up instead.

Just because you and others feel a certain way about a political figure, or even the way a narrative is framed, your ideology should not be dominate over other peoples.

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Old 12-12-2018, 02:47 PM
 
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The real point made was this.
  • Search for "idiot" on Google and you get Trump
  • Search for "idiot" on Duckduckgo, and you do not get Trump.
The bias is obvious.
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