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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEric Trump Insists Google Is Manipulating Americans With Images Of An Anime Character
Eric Trump, presumably hoping to amplify his fathers discourse about the perils of the left-wing mob, tweeted on Tuesday that Googles image search function was manipulating Americans by bringing up pictures of an anime character in response to searches for the word mob.
The third child of President Donald Trump argued that other search engines, such as Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, were showing the proper results.
Link to tweet
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The deadpan-faced character highlighted in Googles search results is Shigeo Kageyama, the protagonist of the anime series Mob Psycho 100. Nicknamed Mob Japanese slang for an unassuming background character Kageyama secretly possesses psychic powers, and the series has been a hit among anime fans worldwide.
This popularity might explain the results of Trumps search, which was replicated by HuffPost with the same results. Googles website explains that its searches look at many factors, including the words of your query, relevance and usability of pages, expertise of sources, and your location and settings.
The site also mentions that searches are optimized with freshness algorithms which are designed to offer the most up-to-date information on a particular keyword indicating that anime fans searching for Mob Psycho 100 content in recent years may have caused Googles algorithms to return images of the titular character under a search for the word mob, at least for now.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/eric-trump-google-mob-psycho-100-213325042.html
Christ what a simpleton.
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Eric Trump Insists Google Is Manipulating Americans With Images Of An Anime Character (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Sep 2020
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C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)1. Eric, here's proof a Google is accurate
Search for Gums Trump
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)2. Maybe he could hire a gumshoe to investigate
n/t
tblue37
(65,340 posts)3. Because he put his foot in his gummy mouth? nt
dweller
(23,629 posts)4. Eric can't google
and chew gum at the same time ...
he'd gummle and chew goo
✌🏼
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)5. More conspiracy theory bullshit
And the stupid lap it right up.
Pathetic.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)6. Fucking idiot.
It is one of the most popular anime series of the last 10 years.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)7. Little Dumber Boy's candle went out a LONG time ago.....
Eating paste is no way to get ahead in life, son.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)8. what? He doesn't like his Beavis bitmoji?
I think it is spot on