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| A month after listing him among criminals, Google ranks Modi among Stupid PMs |
Sujay Ghosh, July 24, 2015, New Delhi, NewsCrunch
A search for the keywords "Most Stupid Prime Ministers" on search engines such as Google and Bing alarmingly throws up Indian premier Narendra Modi prominently.
The search string also fetches Thailand's Former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada and Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand’s first woman prime minister in the results.
On Google, Modi appeared thrice among top individual 10 images in response to the search query, Most Stupid Prime Ministers.
On Bing, Modi appeared four times among top individual 10 images for the same search query.
The results are very upsetting for Modi supporters, more so, as Google had listed him among top 10 criminals barely a month ago.
A search for the keyword 'Top 10 Indian criminals' had revealed Modi in the company of Dawood Ibrahim, Hafiz Saeed, Sanjay Dut and Osama Bin Laden.
The results caused a furor forcing Google to issue an apology to the Prime Minister, along with a clarification.
It said the search query was pulling together multiple news articles, which had both Modi's images and his comments on politicians with criminal background. As the words "Modi" and "Crime" appeared in close proximity, he was appearing in the list of top 10 criminals of India, Google said.
While "apologising for the confusion or misunderstanding the results had caused," Google had promised to improve its algorithms to prevent unexpected results like this.
But it seems to have not delivered on its promise and its search results again end up offending Modi.
The new controversy also makes Google's earlier explanation doubtful. There are no articles, in which the words Modi and stupid appear in close proximity, in the results.
Yet, Modi is listed as the most stupid Prime Minister of the world.
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| Google results listed Modi among top 10 criminals of India last month; this month they rank him among stupid Prime Ministers |