Google landed in trouble in India after itdisplayed the results to a question asked by a user “what is the ugliestlanguage in India” to which the search engine answered ‘Kannada.’
The entire answer to the ‘ugliest language’question displayed was: ‘Kannada, a language spoken by around 40 million peoplein South India.
However, these search results did not go wellwith Kannadigas and now the state government is likely to take a legal actionagainst Google.
Reacting to it, Kannada & CultureMinister Aravind Limbavali took to Twitter and wrote, "Kannada languagehas a history of its own, having come into existence as many as 2,500 yearsago! It has been the pride of Kannadigas all through these two-and-a-half millennia. If Kannada is now called the ugliest language in India, it is merely anattempt by Google to insult this pride of Kannadigas.”
It may be noted here that after Kannadaugliest language search results went viral, Kannadigas were enraged with it. Laterat around 3 pm today, Google rectified it, the remark was sourced from a websitenamed debtconsolidationsquad.com. The outraged public has also asked Google toapologize for its mistake and take strict action against it.
Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has alsoasked Google why it was insensitive towards languages. "Is it impossiblefor Google to curb such hatred against any language? Removing the webpage fromsearch results wouldn't give relief to the hurt suffered by Kannadigas.
"The mistake of Google is not acceptable,”he added.
Meanwhile, Google reverted toit and said sometimes the way any content is described on the Internet canyield "surprising results to specific queries".
"Search isn’t alwaysperfect. Sometimes, the way content is described on the Internet can yieldsurprising results to specific queries. We know this is not ideal, but we takeswift corrective action when we are made aware of an issue and are continuallyworking to improve our algorithms. Naturally, these are not reflective of theopinions of Google, and we apologize for the misunderstanding and hurting anysentiments," a Google spokesperson said.”