Trump Slams Google: ‘Disgrace’ If They Changed Results To Favor Clinton

The multibillion-dollar corporation appears to be actively altering search recommendations in favor of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to a report by SourceFed.

Matt Lieberman of SourceFed released a video showing examples of Google skewing its autocomplete results for Clinton, while other search engines simply display the most searched terms.

This despite the fact that Google Trend results show that people search for “Hillary Clinton crimes” a lot more than “Hillary Clinton crime reform”. But if you type “Hillary Clinton cri”, Google will suggest words like “crime reform” and “crisis” but not “crimes”.

In response to the allegations, Tamar Yehoshua, vice president of product management at Google, wrote a blog post claiming the company’s autocomplete algorithm avoids suggesting offensive search terms when paired with a person’s name. While full details of how the algorithm works are not given, we’re told that suggestion are based on a “number of factors including the popularity and freshness of search terms”. Indeed, on Bing and Yahoo, typing “Hillary Clinton cri” autofills with terms like “criminal charges”, “criminal activities”, “criminal record” “sobs in New Hampshire” and “criticism”.

Drysdale pointed out in a Medium post that when users search for topics unfavorable to Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump, the relevant search suggestions are nowhere to be found there either. By telling hundreds of thousands of people (and growing) to search for these queries, SourceFed has just sent Google data supporting a massive spike of interest in these terms. However, on Google, the top suggestions are: “Hillary Clinton Indiana”, “Hillary Clinton India” and “Hillary Clinton independent voters”, without one suggestion for “indictment”.

The other reason this is happening involves how people search for negative news about Clinton. On Microsoft’s Bing search engine, a user gets Hillary Clinton and “indictment”, yielding results for the FBI investigation into Clinton’s private email server.

Although the same words will also prompt “Hillary Clinton crime bill 1994, ” a now very unpopular bill that many believe is responsible for the massive incarceration problem the nation faces. He also accused the author of the video of failing to reach out for Google’s side of the story. “Google autocomplete does not prefer any prospect or cause”.

Searches for those two terms are way more popular than either of the cherry-picked searches that SourceFed included in its video.

“This is a super-technical area”. It’s just not true. “There is no proof of any kind that the Hillary campaign asked for or was aware of any wrongdoing, and for myself or anyone else to assume or allege so is irresponsible”.

While noting that Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt is now heading the Pentagon’s innovation branch, Assange said ‘Google is heavily integrated with Washington power, at a personal level and at a business level’. “Google, which has increasing control over the distribution channels…is intensely allying itself with the U.S. exceptionalism”.