It's like keeping track of pirated content. You're assuming Google is on top of everything happening in the world. They're not and simply can't be.
I would not be surprised if this was a manually curated whitelist that a human has to add to a table.
I would not be surprised if this was a manually curated whitelist that a human has to add to a table.
Yes, most of them are probably not "real candidates", but Google would be in even hotter water if they tried to predetermine who was and who wasn't a real candidate.
[0]https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00006782...
Not only are there actually 791 Presidential candidates, but there are 26 (27 if you count one who has only formed an exploratory committee)—that is, more than 2 dozen—that Ballotpedia calls “elected officials or notable public figures”.
https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2020_presidential...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-...