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Google, how old is the president?
- dehef 9y agoWhat's the point?
- danblick 9y agoI believe your question is "it shows Obama, so what?", is that right?
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThat Google hasn't automated the process of inferring that the question was about the current president. This generalizes to pretty much any official position.
- walshemj 9y agoDuring the last UK election they got 3 out of the 4 main party leaders wrong for searches about "general election 2017"
- cheez 9y agohttps://www.google.ca/search?dcr=0&q=how+old+is+the+president+of+the+united+states https://www.google.ca/search?dcr=0&q=how+old+is+the+presiden...
- moonka 9y agoLies we tell ourselves to get to sleep at night.
- tdb7893 9y agoI think Google is a little the victim of it's own success. They are never going to be as perfect as we expect on these answers
- strathmeyer 9y ago"how old is the US president" gives the correct answer. Most other inputs don't try to return an exact value.
- amingilani 9y agoCan someone share what they're seeing? I'm not in the US and there isn't a knowledge card, which is what I think the Americans are seeing. The first result on the page for me is: List of Presidents of the United States by age - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit... This is a list of presidents of the United States by age. The first table charts the age of each ... 55 years and 6 months, which is about how old Benjamin Harrison was at the time of his inauguration. ... The youngest living president is Barack Obama, born August 4, 1961 (age 700420517000000000056 years, 63 days).
- limeblack 9y agohttps://i.stack.imgur.com/sgAN8.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgAN8.png Displays a snippet suggesting Barack Obama is 56 years old.
- wskinner 9y agoWhen I search from the USA, it displays a card informing me that Barack Obama is 56 years old.
- sin7 9y agoBarack Obama / Age 56 years August 4, 1961
- jsjohnst 9y ago> age 700420517000000000056 years Hmmm.... I don’t believe President Obama is older than the universe. YMMV!
- dwdz 9y agoI'm not getting any meaningful answer: https://imgur.com/a/HL29A https://imgur.com/a/HL29A
- cobookman 9y agoFYI for transparency. I have informed the google search team of this undesirable search behavior. I am a google employee within google cloud. So can't talk about why you see Obama instead of Trump but good catch.
- jkolyer 9y agoWe already know why we see Obama instead of Trump. And we know why your search results are obviously skewed with serious political bias. The google brand is forever tainted.