Google CEO explains why Donald Trump shows up in Search Results of Word 'IDIOT'

Google CEO Sundar Pichai while speaking in front of the House Judiciary Committee, explained about when someone searches for the word “Idiot,” photos of President Donald Trump appear high in the results.

 He told that the company doesn’t “manually intervene” in search results, and instead search results are based on crawling the content of web pages.



Pichai replied by saying Google’s searches are based on multiple factors that determine the end result.

“We take the keyword and match it against their pages and rank them based on over 200 signals -- things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it,” he testified.

 “Based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best search results for that query.”

The word “idiot” was the most-searched term on Tuesday with more than 1 million searches, according to Google Trends.

Trump’s face also appears on Google image searches for “stupid” and “racist.”



The House committee’s session was held to discuss whether the search engine’s results were politically slanted.


It has also been revealed that the ‘idiot’ search result page was due to third parties’ “Google bombing” the president.

A similar incident was reported during the presidency of George W Bush. In the mid-2000s, Bush’s photo popped up whenever someone searched for “miserable failure,”