Facebook.
Twitter.
And now Google too.
Excerpted from an article at NBC News:
Googling the presidential candidates Wednesday morning didn’t produce the exact results some people would expect.
Searching for the term ‘presidential candidates’ brought up a handy guide above all of the other search results with pictures of candidates with active campaigns. Clicking on a picture brought up searches for the candidates.
The only problem is that Republican candidate Donald Trump wasn’t included. Neither was Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson.Google search result for “Presidential Candidates” shortly after noon Wednesday.
Results were shown for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
When NBC contacted Google, it eventually got this response:
“We found a technical bug in Search where only the presidential candidates participating in an active primary election were appearing in a Knowledge Graph result. Because the Republican and Libertarian primaries have ended, those candidates did not appear. This bug was resolved early this morning.”
Do you believe this explanation?
Not me.
Tell you what: When facebook, Twitter and Google start getting “technical bugs” and other mistakes that damage Hillary Clinton rather than her opponents, let me know. Then maybe I’ll think about believing them.
Hell, if I were one of these three, I’d intentionally put Hillary out of commission for a few hours, just to create the illusion that it wasn’t being done on her behalf.
I wonder if they would even bother….
A few days ago if you went to google and typed in the letter T, Tim Kaine’s name was the first on the list. Google is biased in favor of D’s and liberals. Sometimes they give you the opposite of what you are searching for. Yesterday I dod a google search for “why do democrats lie all the time?” they gave me two pages of why do republicans lie all the time. I am sure it was an honest mistake.
As Ken wrote, “When Facebook, Twitter and Google start getting “technical bugs” and other mistakes that damage Hillary Clinton rather than her opponents, let me know. Then maybe I’ll think about believing them.”
I couldn’t agree more.
I think I am going to switch to Bing and see how that is.