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    Rep. Zoe Lofgren grills Google CEO over images search results for "idiot"

    Respected google CEO on the hot seat today.

    Rep. Zoe Lofgren asks Google CEO why she got Trump pictures when she searched for 'idiot'

    William Cummings, USA TODAY
    Published Dec. 11, 2018

    WASHINGTON – Rep. Zoe Lofgren wants to know why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for "idiot."
    "Right now, if you Google the word 'idiot' under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that," the California Democrat told Google CEO Sundar Pichai during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington.
    "How would that happen? How does search work so that would occur?" Lofgren asked Pichai. The Google CEO – who was at the hearing to address allegations of political bias in his company's widely used search engine – said the results are based on billions of keywords ranked according to more than 200 factors such as relevance and popularity.
    "So it's not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we're going to show the user?" Lofgren asked rhetorically. "It's basically a compilation of what users are generating."

    A Google image search for the word "idiot" by USA TODAY found that Trump was not the top result. That honor went to a copy of Evert Larock's painting, "The Idiot," which is linked to by Wikipedia. But Trump appeared in 13 of the top 17 results. A combination photo of Trump's sons Donald and Eric came in at No. 6.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lt/2276429002/


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    Respected google CEO
    Are you new here?

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    Could it be because people refer to him as an idiot?
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    Enforced internal open borders was one of the worst elements of the Constitution.

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    Donald Trump was very happy with DOW Jones 26000 and Google valued at $500 billion

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCount View Post
    Could it be because people refer to him as an idiot?
    That never seemed to affect O'Bummer.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

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    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

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    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    That never seemed to affect O'Bummer.
    What results do you get when you google image search "obummer", then? A blank page?
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    Pinochet is the model
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    Liberty preserving authoritarianism.
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Enforced internal open borders was one of the worst elements of the Constitution.

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    If you search moron, you would also get lots of pictures of Trump near the top. Same goes for low IQ president



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