While hash out polling numbers at a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday , Donald Trump offhand accused Google of manipulate search results in favour of rival Hillary Clinton , because hey , why not ?
“ The Google crown has us run Hillary by two point nationwide , ” said Trump . “ And that ’s despite the fact that Google ’s search engine was suppressing the bad newsworthiness about Hillary Clinton , how about that ? How about that ? ”
As Trump did not elaborate on his claim , it is ill-defined what “ bad news program ” he believes the search colossus concealed . In June , however , a viral video titled “ Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?”made similar allegations , motivate an official reaction from Google .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg
In the video , YouTube channel SourceFed find that Google ’s Autocomplete feature film predicted relatively innocuous hunting when commit characters that touch off queries like “ hillary clinton indictment ” and “ hillary clinton crimes ” on competitors Bing and Yahoo . According to Google , however , their algorithm is specify up to never predict “ disparaging ” queries in connective with someone ’s name — a claim supported bya cursory comparisonof the hunting engines .
“ Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or drive , ” the companytold The Washington Times . “ claim to the reverse simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works . ”
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