There are people who think Google is incorporating political bias into search results. As examples they use misspellings of George Bush and Barack Obama. Are the results of misspelled queries really something Google would take the time to specifically alter to inject their political beliefs though?
Search for Did you mean: barack obama" suggestion, and the top 2 results for Barack Obama:
George Busch and you won't get any suggestions:This has led some to speculate that Google is showing its political bias. Top executives with the company were very open about supporting Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. Eric Schmidt even appeared in Obama's 30 minute infomercial. This surely only adds to the speculation.
"So what is this all about?"
Is this what is really going on though? You may get the suggestion of a correct spelling with "Aboma," but there are still negative results in the "Aboma" listings. Stuff like "Will Barack Aboma Try To Destroy America?" Further more, if I search for who makes it clear he doesn't think Google is doing any biasing, thinks it is more a bias of the American people and the results are simply a reflection of that. "But is there more going on?" he asks.
Perhaps Google just doesn't have its algorithm fine-tuned to eliminate political bias for every possible misspelling of every possible search. And frankly, they've probably got more important issues to worry about than providing the best results for erroneous searches. I personally would rather see them continue to improve search for correctly spelled queries.
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