Go to google and do a search for “king of the united states”. and you’ll see “barack obama” in google’s answer box. its a tricky situation that google has with their answer box when it comes to polarizing subjects, such as politics. the newest controversy in our industry is democrats being upset that if you do a search california’s prop 63, a republican answer shows up in the answer box. my guess is that google’s algorithm is going to have to figure out which websites have content that is political and provide a democrat answer and a republican answer. this could also be done when it comes to questions such as the origin of earth. you could have a religious answer and an atheist answer. (disclosure: search engine land, like many in the tech industry, writes from a democrat perspective)
