Kannadigas of our nation have gotten mad at Google after search research for the ugliest language in the world listed Kannada in the search results.?
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People online, especially the Kannada-speaking crowd have gone to Twitter, seeking an apology for this gruesome disrespect for their mother tongue.
Many have shared quotes and sayings that have referred to Kannada as the Queen of languages, whereas many have shared how several languages of the nation wouldn¡¯t have come to existence without the existence of Kannada.?
Kannada & Culture Minister Aravind Limbavali has announced that he would be issuing a notice to Google surrounding this. In a tweet, he shared, "Kannada language has a history of its own, having come into existence as many as 2,500 years ago! It has been the pride of Kannadigas all through these two-and-a-half millennia. If Kannada is now called the ugliest language in India, it is merely an attempt by Google to insult this pride of Kannadigas.¡±
Not exactly. Google Search only shows what its algorithm tracks, based on keywords for websites and their content online. In fact, this isn¡¯t quite different from how Google Search would show former POTUS Donald Trump¡¯s name when searching for the word ¡®idiot¡¯.?
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Sundar Pichai, in a congress hearing with US Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren explained to her how all this is based on google search indexes, webpages, images on them as well as keywords and the search results aren¡¯t displayed due to human intervention on Google¡¯s part.
At the time of writing the article, Google search for the world¡¯s ugliest language no longer displayed Kannada, instead, it showed news coverage surrounding this controversy and tweets by individuals. The website being shown in the screenshots has also seemed to be pulled down.
The real culprit here is the website that wrote such content and used those keywords in the first place, not Google. To test out the search, we decided to search for the most beautiful language in India, which listed Telugu, linking back to an article on a website dubbed IndiatheDestiny. You can check out the search result here.
This only goes to show how Google Search gets influenced by the content a website holds and it¡¯s not Google who is stating these things on its own.