Google Admits 'Where Can I Vote' Feature Favoured Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump

Google has admitted to a ‘technical glitch’ after reports surfaced claiming its search engine appeared to favor Kamala Harris , Democratic candidate, over Republican candidate Donald Trump in search results. When users searched for "Where can I vote for Harris?" Google displayed specific voting locations, while a similar search for Trump didn’t yield same information. Instead, Trump-related searches directed users to news links from networks like CNN, CBS, and NBC, without offering local polling sites.

Elon Musk brought attention to issue, alleging that Google's search engine showed voting information biased towards Harris. Multiple users on X posted concern to which google admit and called it a glitch.

Google has since ackwledged issue, calling it a technical glitch and offering an explanation. company stated that ‘Harris’ is also name of a county in Texas, and this overlap may have triggered specific voting location results for searches with word ‘Harris.’ Google furr explained that this wasn’t limited to Harris; a similar pattern was observed with search term ‘Vance,’ which is also name of a county and happens to match last name of a Republican candidate.