President Donald Trump Tops Google Image Search For “Idiot”

Google images sure thinks Donald Trump is an “idiot”.  When users type the word “idiot” in their Google image search, pictures of Trump comes up multiple times.

Online activists are reportedly influencing Google’s algorithm by assigning the word “idiot” to Trump’s images.

The trend started with Reddit users “upvoting” a post that contained a photo of Trump linked to that word.

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In an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, a Democratic congresswoman asked Google’s company’s chief executive officer a simple question: “If you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. How would that happen? How does search work so that would occur?”

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, who was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, tried to explain how the algorithms take into account some 200 factors – such as relevance, popularity and how others are using the search term – to determine how to best match a query with results.

“So it’s not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we’re going to show the user. It’s basically a compilation of what users are generating, and trying to sort through that information?” Ms Zofgren asked, facetiously.

She was reacting to Republicans’ allegations that Google employees manipulate results for political reasons.

Republicans on the panel also could not get past the claim that some person or people inside Google could not arbitrarily change search algorithms for political gain.

In one exchange, Representative Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, asked Mr Pichai whether he had ever directed an employee to manipulate search results.

Mr Pichai explained that it was not possible for one person, or even a group of people, to do that because there are so many steps in the process.

But Mr Smith did not accept that explanation, telling Mr Pichai: “Let me just say, I disagree. I think humans can manipulate the process. It is a human process at its base.”

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