Google Makes Changes In Search Algorithm, No Longer Says 'Holocaust Did Not Happen'?

Google's popular and widely-used search engine "Google Search" has recently drawn flak and criticism after a search on the holocaust suggested that the event did not happen. Google has since then made quick fixes to the search engine's algorithm, bumping down bogus search queries.

According to the Verge, the search entry "did the Holocaust happen" initially ranked an entry from Stormfront, a white supremacist site, as the top search result suggesting that the Holocaust event in Germany during the early years of World War 2 did not really happen. After the Google fix, the search result has been inconsistently bumped down the search results page instead of completely removing the search result entry.

So @google finally fixes "did the holocaust happen". Hurrah! Shame it's still "a lie" "a hoax" & not actually "real"https://t.co/wmA6cpEQNT pic.twitter.com/g5WhK7lbPG

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) December 27, 2016

Digital Trends reports that it's not the first time Google's search engine results drew negative reactions from users for its search results. Other search results ended up suggesting that "Jews are evil" and "Muslims are bad." Other top-ranked search results even go as far as suggesting that the Holocaust was right and "why Hitler was one of the good guys."

While Google aims to provide the best result for every search entry, google admits that it doesn't always get it right. "Google was built on providing people with high-quality and authoritative results for their search queries," the Verge quotes Google. "Judging which pages on the web best answer a query is a challenging problem and we don't always get it right."

The recent update to Google's search algorithm will help better rank credible content from the web, and google plans to regularly improve the search algorithm to tackle issues in Google's search engine. But despite the fix in the search engine's algorithm, critics still believe that there have been little to no improvement in the search results entry, some even going as far as the fix being a simple PR stunt.