Tech giant Google has announced auto-complete search suggestions will be removed ahead of the 2020 United States Presidential election following complaints the 2016 result may be been influenced by the researching aid. DjuroSen
Tech giant Google has announced auto-complete search suggestions will be removed ahead of the 2020 United States Presidential election following complaints the 2016 result may be been influenced by the researching aid. The company indicated the changes would be made to avoid any suggestion search results were biased towards a particular political view.
Technology expert Djuro Sen told Sky News “in the last election there was some criticism that maybe Hillary Clinton got a better run of it back in 2016 so obviously Google and the other tech giants want to crack down before the election on any hint of bias”. “You can still search whatever you want, it’s just not going to suggest to you what to search for,” he said. Mr Sen also said the big question in the future was whether this practice would be employed in other countries ahead of elections.
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