The word “idiot” quickly
became the most searched term on Google after Democratic congresswoman
Zoe Lofgren pointed out results from the search reveal pictures of U.S.
President Donald Trump.
Lofgren
posed the question to Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a congressional
hearing on Tuesday about potential bias among the website’s searches.
“If
you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump
comes up. I just did that. How would that happen?” she asked.
Pichai replied by saying Google’s searches are based on multiple factors that determine the end result.
“We
take the keyword and match it against their pages and rank them based
on over 200 signals — things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how
other people are using it,” he testified. “Based on that, at any given
time, we try to rank and find the best search results for that query.”
The word “idiot” was the most-searched term on Tuesday with more than 1 million searches, according to Google Trends.
Trump’s face also appears on Google image searches for “stupid” and “racist.”
From CTV News