Putin Comes Up When You Google the President of the United States (now fixed)

[Da Space Core]

[url]http://gizmodo.com/guess-who-comes-up-when-you-google-the-president-of-the-1795200479[/url]

(despite relating to politics, this was more of a silly quirk of google, so I put this in SH. mods feel free to move it if it should)

[QUOTE]For some odd reason, Vladimir Putin features prominently in the search. In fact, if you only glanced at it quickly, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the search result was that Vladimir Putin was the President of the United States.

Tech reporter Mike Isaac speculates that the search results are a product of the two politicians coming up together so often, given the current scandals. But Züst says that maybe Google’s AI knows something the rest of us don’t.[/QUOTE]

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[DoktorAkcel]

Google is smarter than most people

[ironman17]

Even if it was a goof or a glitch, considering the dodgy stuff surrounding Russia, perhaps it's more apt than we'd normally think?

I just hope these ex-KGB old boys croak it some day, so we can be rid of them holding us back.

[Da Space Core]

[QUOTE=ironman17;52227865]Even if it was a goof or a glitch, considering the dodgy stuff surrounding Russia, perhaps it's more apt than we'd normally think?

I just hope these ex-KGB old boys croak it some day, so we can be rid of them holding us back.[/QUOTE]

I agree with the suggestion in the article. It wasn't exactly a "glitch," just that since trump and putin were both googled so often next to each other, the google bots probably got confused

[Hail Satan]

Barack Obama was king a while back, according to google

[tsar]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;52227914]Barack Obama was king a while back, according to google[/QUOTE]

Really have to appreciate they irony of that sentiment nowadays