
Tag Archives: Google
Stranger Than Fiction

This last Tuesday was one of those days where if you were paying attention to the news, you might be mistaken in your assumption that we now live in a bad 90s sitcom. Stupid events of note, Donald Trump and the Democratic heads of Congress got into a shouting match in the oval office and made fun of each other. The snark was so real and palpable that I couldn’t help but cringe. Meanwhile, down the street, The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai was forced to explain that they didn’t make iPhones, and had to explain that, unfortunately, when Googling the word “idiot”, the fact that pictures of the current POTUS pop up wasn’t the result of a liberal bias, but a viable search conclusion. By the by, both events were punctuated by lots of people laughing at inopportune moments, meaning the news literally had a laugh track today. So I take that back. Maybe we are living in a bad 90s sitcom…
Google by Trump

Donald Trump is now going to war against search results. Apparently he was told that when you search for Donald Trump stories on Google, the results tend to be unfavorable towards him (because duh). I say he was told, because it’s well known that Trump himself isn’t exactly computer literate. The idea of him doing a Google search is frankly unfathomable. Anyway, Trump seems to think that lack of positivity is more a statement on the unfairness of a search algorithm as opposed to an indication of his poor politics and lack of self awareness. He doesn’t seem to realize that his supporters account for a small, SMALL segment of the population, both of the internet and frankly the planet. To his credit, they are a loud bunch, bunch their numbers aren’t as great. So no, the news about him isn’t going to be predominantly favorable. So now Trump wants to go in and regulate search engines. He says he wants fairness, but the reality is that he just wants to keep people from voicing mean opinions of him. But as long as the internet is a thing, the odds will forever not be in his favor. Sorry/Not Sorry, Don.