Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai on Tuesday explained why the pictures of United State president, Donald Trump, pop up on Google Images when people search the term “idiot”.
The US Congress had grilled Google CEO Sundar Pichai about this and had Republicans alleged that Google’s search results are biased and that Democrats who work at Google choose liberal websites over conservative views for prime placement on Google services like Google search.
“How would that happen? How does search work so that that would occur?” Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren asked Pichai.
Pichai responded by explaining that Google has a search algorithm that collates data from billions of web pages.
“And based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best search results for that query. And then we evaluate them with external raters, and they evaluate it to objective guidelines. And that’s how we make sure the process is working.”
