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Thursday, September 29, 2016 1:04:06 AM
Donald Trump Casually Accuses Google of Suppressing Negative Clinton News
Hudson Hongo
Yesterday 9:50pm
Photo: AP
While discussing polling numbers at a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, Donald Trump offhandedly accused Google of manipulating search results in favor of rival Hillary Clinton, because hey, why not?
“The Google poll has us leading Hillary by two points nationwide,” said Trump. “And that’s despite the fact that Google’s search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton, how about that? How about that?”
As Trump did not elaborate on his claim, it is unclear what “bad news” he believes the search giant concealed. In June, however, a viral video titled “Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?” made similar allegations .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg , prompting an official response from Google.
[YouTube of embed]
In the video, YouTube channel SourceFed found that Google’s Autocomplete feature predicted relatively innocuous searches when given characters that triggered queries like “hillary clinton indictment” and “hillary clinton crimes” on competitors Bing and Yahoo. According to Google, however, their algorithm is set up to never predict “disparaging” queries in conjunction with someone’s name—a claim supported by a cursory comparison .. http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/ .. of the search engines.
http://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-casually-accuses-google-of-suppressing-neg-1787209399
.. no doubt Trump's an asshole ..
Hudson Hongo
Yesterday 9:50pm
Photo: AP
While discussing polling numbers at a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, Donald Trump offhandedly accused Google of manipulating search results in favor of rival Hillary Clinton, because hey, why not?
“The Google poll has us leading Hillary by two points nationwide,” said Trump. “And that’s despite the fact that Google’s search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton, how about that? How about that?”
As Trump did not elaborate on his claim, it is unclear what “bad news” he believes the search giant concealed. In June, however, a viral video titled “Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?” made similar allegations .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg , prompting an official response from Google.
[YouTube of embed]
In the video, YouTube channel SourceFed found that Google’s Autocomplete feature predicted relatively innocuous searches when given characters that triggered queries like “hillary clinton indictment” and “hillary clinton crimes” on competitors Bing and Yahoo. According to Google, however, their algorithm is set up to never predict “disparaging” queries in conjunction with someone’s name—a claim supported by a cursory comparison .. http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/ .. of the search engines.
http://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-casually-accuses-google-of-suppressing-neg-1787209399
.. no doubt Trump's an asshole ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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