US Elections 2024: Google Shows ‘Where To Vote’ Results For Harris But Nothing For Trump
The US Presidential elections 2024 is bringing the big tech debate back into the headlines with the latest Google Search gaffe.
The US Presidential 2024 elections are in full swing, with voters now waiting for the big results to know their next President over the period of 5 years. However, the elections are getting strong support from various tech entities, and Kamala Harris seems to be Google’s preference over its products.
Many people have noticed that Google Search shows full results when they search for where can i vote for Harris, giving them information about the voting locations with complete street address.
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But when the same search is done for Trump, the results are discrepant, only showing them news reports from various media channels. Google is aware of these differences, and highlighted by X chief Elon Musk has got a quick response on the issue, for which, the company claims, a fix is coming soon. But the bigger question is linked to how the results for Harris and Trump are so different on the platform for the users?
This is what Google explained in its response to Musk’s query on the Search issue, “Thx for this. The “where to vote" panel is triggering for some specific searches bc Harris is also the name of a county in TX. Happens for “Vance" too bc it’s also the name of a county. Fix is coming. Note very few people actually search for voting places this way."
At the time of writing, the search results with these keywords seem to have been fixed but it is likely that Google is geo-blocking these results for the US states only. Instances like these bring the debate about the role of big tech players in these elections, especially when they are allegedly favouring one party over another.
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