Congress Was Confused by the Internet During Hearing With Google CEO | NowThis

[Music] if I move from here and go over there and sit with my Democrat friends which will make them real nervous does Google track my movement does Google through this phone know that I have moved here and moved over to the left not by default there may be a Google service which you've opted in to use and if so Google knows that I am moving over there it's not a trick question you know you make a hundred million dollars a year you ought to be able to answer that question does Google know through this phone that I am moving over there and sitting next to mr. Johnson it's yes or no I won't be able to answer that I'm looking at done can't say yes or no without knowing more detailed stuff yes or no I genuinely don't know without knowing those shots you don't know I think Google obviously does would you agree to allow an independent entity to study your search results for political bias I know you've have individuals studying that now but you appointed them would you allows and third party independent outside organization to study your search results and cooperate with them to determine the degree or if any of political bias today there have been independent third party studies looking at search results the economists but you chose those third parties I'm talking about someone truly independent we didn't choose those parties I mean they completed those studies if you google the word idiot under images the picture dong slump comes up I just did that how would that happen how does search work so that that would occur for any time you type in a keyword we have crawled we've gone out and crawled and stowed billion copies of billions of their pages in our index and we take the keyword and match it against web pages and rank them based on over 200 signals things like relevance freshness popularity how other people are using it and based on that you know at any given time we tried to rank and find the best results for that query and then we evaluate them at external Raiders to make sure that and they evaluated the objective guidelines and and that's how we make sure the process is well 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 we don't you know manually intervene on any particular social service have a seven-year-old granddaughter who picked up her phone before the election and she's playing a little game kind of game a kid would play and up on their pops a picture of her grandfather I'm not gonna say into the record what the kind of language was used around that picture of her grandfather but I'd ask you how does that show up on a seven-year-olds iPhone was playing a kids game congressman iPhone is made by a different company and so you know I mean it might have been an Android is just it was a hand-me-down of some kind also to mine now if you've never sanctioned any employee for any type for manipulating the research results whatsoever is that the case it's not possible for an individual employee or groups of employees to manipulate our search associate you know we have a robust framework including many steps in the process and my time is up let me just say I disagree I think humans can manipulate the process it is a human process at his face Thank You mr. chairman you lad have you considered having an online school that people could go to with a Google rep and you could kind of login and gonna ask questions or have Google and and not like Comcast where you get put on hold for 30 minutes and then find somebody who you can't understand [Music]

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Length: 4min 11sec (251 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 13 2018