That is just a practical application of the old adage "a person may be unpredictable, but a large group of people is woefully predictable." Statistics from Big Data are, again, confirming that strong, completely independent thinking and decision-making is an illusion.
Damage control by the Clinton News Network (CNN). Notice no mention for half the charges in the video, namely that The Groundwork is run my Schmidt and actively using data to elect Hillary Clinton.
Do your own searches, draw your own conclusions. Why is "Crooked Hillary" filtered by Google? "Little Marco" isn't. "Lying Ted" isn't. It's a term people legitimately search for since Trump says it all the time yet Google sees fit to filter it?
Google should not be involved in electing Hillary Clinton. Schmidt's deep involvement with the campaign, via The Groundwork, is a conflict of interests. Every person must make up their own mind which sources of information are trustworthy.
It's not that "she's not a criminal" (the argument if this CNN report) that they don't autocorrect, it's that Google doesn't autocomplete "cri" to anyone- even Charles Manson or Al Capone- to "avoid disparaging a person's name". This is actually what they quote Google as saying in the next sentence. CNN is taking their argument one assumption too far, which is not what Google said. Typical media bias and spin. I'm actually more disappointed in CNN than Google's response, which seems quite reasonable. See below:
"The examples that SourceFed chose are factually incorrect. Hillary Clinton has not been charged with a crime. She has not been indicted. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) knows this, and its algorithm actually filters out inaccurate information in autocomplete.
"Our autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person's name," a Google spokeswoman said. "Google autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how autocomplete works."
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 15.9 ms ] thread"Google understands humans better than we understand ourselves," Rhea told CNNMoney.
Do your own searches, draw your own conclusions. Why is "Crooked Hillary" filtered by Google? "Little Marco" isn't. "Lying Ted" isn't. It's a term people legitimately search for since Trump says it all the time yet Google sees fit to filter it?
Google should not be involved in electing Hillary Clinton. Schmidt's deep involvement with the campaign, via The Groundwork, is a conflict of interests. Every person must make up their own mind which sources of information are trustworthy.
"The examples that SourceFed chose are factually incorrect. Hillary Clinton has not been charged with a crime. She has not been indicted. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) knows this, and its algorithm actually filters out inaccurate information in autocomplete.
"Our autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person's name," a Google spokeswoman said. "Google autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how autocomplete works."