“Why does a Google image search for the word ‘idiot ‘throw up images for President Donald Trump?” Rep, Zoe  Lofgren, a Democrat from California, asked Google CEO Sunder Pichai on Tuesday. This was just one of the few ‘googly’ questions that Pichai faced from the House Judiciary Committee in the US Senate.

So Why does it? It’s a phenomenon called “Google bombing”, which results in people gaming a certain keyword and linking it to sites with that result. In this case, US President Donald Trump.

    This is what Google CEO Sunder Pichai had to say to the query:
“We take the keyword and match it against their pages and rank them based on over 200 signals. Things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it. Based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best search results for that query“.