Rick Santorum wants his Google problem fixed. Can Google shrug him off?
(Read article summary)Google says the years-old problem Rick Santorum has had is not theirs to fix. But questions remain: Who is responsible for online reputations? And is Google a company or a public utility?
Los Angeles
Rick Santorum has had a Google problem for years, but now the Republican presidential hopeful wants the company to fix it.
The problem began in 2003. After the then-US senator from Pennsylvania said he was opposed to “homosexual acts,” a gay rights activist figured out how to drive top search results for the politician’s name to graphic, homosexual material.
Now, as the race for the GOP nomination heats up – with yet another debate Thursday night – the former governor is renewing his appeal to Google to filter its search results.
“I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it,” he told Politico on Tuesday.
But Google, the largest Internet search engine with some 70 percent of online search results, maintains that this is not the company’s problem.
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