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Trump left out of Google search for presidential candidates

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From the article: "We found a technical bug in Search where only the presidential candidates participating in an active primary election were appearing in a Knowledge Graph result. Because the Republican and Libertarian primaries have ended, those candidates did not appear. This bug was resolved early this morning.” — Google Spokesperson

Upvoted. A technical bug in Google Search should be relevant to the reader demographics of HN. The story should not be 'Flagged'.

Makes sense. That explains why Johnson wasn't listed despite polling higher than Stein and having better ballot access.

Trump is showing up now: https://www.google.com/search?q=presidential+candidates

can we just occam's razor this one.

No, this happened too many times and it is also known that Silicon Valley leaders from Google/Apple/Facebook and others met to discuss how to stop Trump.

I've also seen that a week ago the Google image search for one of Trumps books returned Hitlers Mein Kampf as the first result, which I feel is extremely disgusting.

Yea but... the explanation that it was just a bug makes sense. The idea that there is an organizational conspiracy at Google to make DT not show up in search is much harder to believe. Even if there are SV leaders who don't support him (and I am assuming for good reason), the idea that they A) someone are convincing an entire company to put their credibility on the line and B) actually think that DT not showing up in a "presidential candidate" search is ACTUALLY going to sway some public opinion, are both crazy assumptions to me.

I mean it isn't like people don't know DT is the GOP nominee, why would they see that search in the article and go "Well, shit, guess he dropped out!"

4chan has manipulated Google image search many times to do far worse things. This is a poor conspiracy.

When trying to submit this story, HN returned a message saying that the story had already been submitted.

Yet searching HN and sorting results by date did not show the link, any variation of it or any similar story.

So the story link was submitted with the suffix ?do=notcensor and that's why you're here right now...

I guess you were pretty upset by the search results for Rick Santorum in 08 and 12 eh?

No, I didn't care back then because I'm a citizen of an EU country. But over the years PC censorship and self-censorship pushed by the left has become so intolerable in the west that I can't ignore it anymore.

It's btw funny how Google's algorithms are seemingly always gamed in favour of left wing politicians at every single election in the US and EU.

It's also telling that you feel it is fine to smear your political opponent like they did with Santorum.

You know google search puts together things which are conversationally related. If you don't think people are making Trump Hitler parallels you are in an echo chamber.

sources?

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/07/28/google-search-connect...

It is Fox news which is biased but I tested it myself back then (when it was first posted on Reddit a week ago) and I got the same result

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3483046/Silicon-Vall...

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