Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling 'Idiot' Shows Donald Trump
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Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling 'Idiot' Shows Donald Trump
Lee Moran, HuffPost 5 hours ago 
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.
- This article originally appeared on HuffPost .
Google CEO takes tough questions in front of House Judiciary Committee on Trump search results
Search for the term “idiot” on Google and several photographs of President 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.
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Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling 'Idiot' Shows Donald Trump
we take the keyword and match it against the pages and rank them based on over 200 signals,” Pichai explained.
LOL In short trump comes up as an idiot because so many people think it that their records reflect it.
Sounds logical.
not because they think it it's cause they tag it that way everytime they search for it....
with this exposure I'm sure soon he will be the #1 result for "Idiot"
Just an example of how liberal the internet really is...
The internet has no ideological preference, it's a numbers thing, but evidently it's users do,
So, what's that say about the American population ?
I completely disagree with you here. Yes it's a numbers thing, and repeated surveys of internet users have shown that not only is the internet (it's users) solidly being liberal, (well more than half) about 80% of those are progressive liberal....
And ergo sum, T-rumps image has risen to the top as a depiction of "idiot" claiming it's a numbers game logically tends towards proving that it is liberal biased....
What does that say about the people? overall, not sure yet, but in internet media circles, decidedly liberal...
The internet is a thing.
A collection of things in a system of connections of things
Yes used mainly by liberal minded people.
Whose fault is that ?
What does it say about the America population ? I'd say it say that many people are at least liberal enough to be on the internet for sure.
I guess morse code really is out of fashion now but now that probably was a more conservative minded user base "monopoly" back in those days.
That's kinda the problem with conservatism, it doesn't change as the world does.
It's also the glue that holds us to the past as a solid foundation in the present in with the liberal are building their future.
The old will die and the young will turn old, ... and more conservative. Been happening for 241 years in The united states.
Just googled it, and the first thing I saw was the orange baboon!
yeppers,
What's to understand? He IS an idiot. No explanation is necessary.
Yeah well, at least the 'dead conservatives' can be thankful that a google search of idiot doesn't bring up a photo of the Trump and a half naked Putin.