Google clarifies why it's showing 'where to vote for Harris' after Elon Musk flags issue

Elon Musk who was very active on X throughout Election Day accused Google of favoring vice president Kamala Harris with its 'where to vote' option. He did not directly level the allegations but shared posts that claimed that when users searched 'where can I vote', the search option showed 'where can I vote Harris' -- because Harris County is a county in Texas.

Google acknowledged the issue that was flagged by the users that Where can I vote for Harris search was producing an interactive map tool to find polling places but was not doing the same for 'where can I vote for Trump'.

"The 'where to vote' panel is triggering for some specific searches [because] Harris is also the name of a county in [Texas]," Google said in a statement. "Fix is coming," the search giant said, adding: "Note very few people actually search for voting places this way." Elon Musk responded to the clarification.

🤨 https://t.co/BsPZA362Cu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2024

Thanks for the clarification https://t.co/JReZUGiWF8

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2024

Are others seeing this too? https://t.co/mlwRY08hgo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2024

This is not the first time that Google has been accused of being pro-Kamala Harris. Donald Trump, during the campaign, accused the search engine of being biased towards Harrin in online search results. Trump also called for Google to be criminally prosecuted for this bias. If the Department of Justice does not prosecute Google 'for this blatant interference of Elections", he would request its prosecution when he becomes the president, he wrote.

Right-leaning Media Research Center published a report and claimed that Google search engine results tended to show positive news articles about Harris ahead of Trump's campaign website when a user searched for "Donald Trump presidential race 2024".

“It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris," Trump wrote at that time.

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