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RockRaven

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8. Google searches can deliver different results for different people, but when I search "idiot"

Reply to Power 2 the People (Original post)

Tue Dec 11, 2018, 08:10 PM

Dec 2018

13 of the first 20 images are some variant of Donald Trump. One is Don Jr & Eric. The other 6 are non-Trump, including the first result which was Dostoevsky's novel.

But of those 13, 9 of them are meta -- i.e. about the fact that the google result for idiot is Donald Trump. Who knows how many/few would have been Trump had this not been brought up in a Congressional hearing? Seems like there's some Streisand-like effect going on here.

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Congresswoman asks Google CEO why googling 'idiot' shows picture of Trump [View all] Power 2 the People Dec 2018 OP

he was so respectful barbtries Dec 2018 #1

He should have answered Duh! KelsieK Dec 2018 #2

He shoulda answered "Smocking Gun" wellst0nev0ter Dec 2018 #9

welcome to DU! gopiscrap Dec 2018 #12

Pretty much the same reason googling "punchable" brings up a lot of images of Martin Shkreli. tanyev Dec 2018 #3

that this needed to be explained tho.. JHan Dec 2018 #4

That is too funny .... CatMor Dec 2018 #5

The Congresswoman already knew the answer. Zoe Lofgren is Silicon Valley delisen Dec 2018 #6

.... skylucy Dec 2018 #7

Google searches can deliver different results for different people, but when I search "idiot" RockRaven Dec 2018 #8

Because Trump is an idiot? Initech Dec 2018 #10

I tried it and she's right - lots of pix of Trump - and one of his two eldest sons... Rhiannon12866 Dec 2018 #11