If you made a Google search for "presidential candidates" this morning, you would have found an unusual result. As of this morning, the top bar of results displayed Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein — with Donald Trump and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson left off the top bar entirely. (Below the top section, both candidates still appeared in a number of Google News results.) Around noon ET today, Google pushed a fix that restored Trump and Johnson, but not before some outlets seized on the finding as evidence of "the tech giant’s left-wing bias."
According to Google, the omissions were the result of a "technical bug" in the Knowledge Graph, the massive information-mapping system that provides the...
