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US Congress asks Google CEO to explain why the photo of Donald Trump comes up when you type “idiot”

       

                                                                            When you type in "Idiot" in Google search,  photos of US president Donald Trump comes up and Republicans in the US Congress grilled Google CEO Sundar Pichai about this.

Republicans allege that Google's search results are biased and that Democrats who work at Google choose liberal websites over conservative views for prime placement on Google services like Google search. 

Several Republicans on the committee, including Rep. Lamar Smith, said there was "political bias baked into" Google's culture.

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren gave Google CEO a chance to explain and convince them that there's no conservative bias in Google.

Lofgren said to Pichai:

Manipulation of search results - I think it's important to talk about how search works. Right now, if you Google the word 'idiot,' under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that.

How would that happen? How does search work so that that would occur?

Pichai replied:  

We provide search today for - anytime you type in a keyword, we as Google, we have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of webpages in our index. We take the keyword and match it against webpages and rank them based on over 200 signals, things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it. And based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best results for that query. Then we evaluate them with external raters to make sure, and they evaluate it to objective guidelines, and that's how we make sure the process is working.  

Lofgren added:

So it's not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we're going to show the user - it's basically a compilation of what users are generating, and trying to sort through that information.

And Pichai replied:

Last year we served over 3 trillion searches. Just as a fact, every single day, 15% of the searches Google sees, we have never seen them before.

So this is working at scale. We don't manually intervene on any particular search result.

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25-year-old Nigerian man arrested in Italy for beating another Nigerian man into coma

      A 25-year-old Nigerian man on Monday was  arrested in Modena Italy for allegedly slapping and seriously injuring a 32-year-old man on November 9.

The victim, who is also from Nigeria, reported severe brain damage and is in a coma at the hospital of Baggiovara.

The suspect was identified thanks to surveillance cameras at the scene of the attack, investigators said. He has been living in Italy since 2015 and was granted a residency permit for humanitarian reasons.

The suspect had applied for asylum in Gubbio and had worked at a factory near Modena until three months ago but was currently jobless and homeless, investigative sources said.

Four Federal University of Agriculture students die after fatal accident inside their campus 

                 

                       

Four students of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue state, have lost their lives in a fatal car crash that occured within their campus. The accident happened at about 8am.

According to eyewitnsses, a motorcycle carrying a student crossed an intra-campus shuttle bus and in the process of avoiding the motorcycle, the driver of the bus was said to have applied brake which caused the bus to somersault.

The two students in the front seat died instantly while two others died in the school clinic where they were rushed to for medical attention. Four other students are in critical conditions.

The accident caused the students to go on rampage. They burnt the campus bus and some other properties were destroyed. The school authorities have shut down the school until further notice.

Nigerian soldier reveals how his wife's wise advice is helping him survive in this "Buhari economy" 

                 

A Nigerian soldier has narrated how listening to his wife's advice is helping him survive in this "Buhari economy".

The soldier, who was away from Nigeria for two years on official assignment, returned to the country from Somalia and was planning his next move when his wife pitched in and advised him that his plan wasn't the best. He listened to her and is now grateful for it, not to mention richer.

Read his story below. Plus, there's a reaction to his story that you won't want to miss.

Below is the reaction from a supposed "family lawyer".