Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Following up on trending news, Google needs to explain how the nation's president's name added in a websearch appears to yield little difference.

First, a caveat, Google search algorithms can be tailored to a user's profile, as stored by Google, so that your search on the identical terms I search might differ. That said, credible outlets post online this morning: WaPo, BBC, and HuffPo.

Passing on the opportunity to editorialize in order to describe the experiment, a first Google:

"idiot" at the time of posting this item yields:


Next, modifying the search by adding our nation's president's name

"idiot" trump yields:


Differences exist in later listings in the return list for the two searches, but atop things, adding the name of our nation's chief executive yields about the same thing, i.e., Google algorithms appear to fail in distinguishing things (and the search is not limited to "news" but is a generic google). This leads to trying the president's name alone, along with a randomly chosen additional search term:

trump hush yielding returns you can test for yourself, but this video opening image was included when searched at the time of this posting


Days, weeks, months from now search returns may differ - time marches on. However, what is today is what was presented. Perhaps using a different random word along with "trump" might yield differing output, but a bit of editorializing sometimes is not all bad. Leader of a nation, a nation that arguably was great in the days of Washington and Jefferson and Madison, so, now, again?

_____________UPDATE____________
Nothing great shows up in a google = trump again

Postulating there could be some unique aspect to Google and "idiot," check out, google =: "dunce" trump

Clearly "idiot" has some unique aspect under Google algorithms, aspects "dunce" lacks.