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Winston Churchill’s Image Removed in UK/US Search Results
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1 Recommended Answer 67 Replies 1103 Upvotes Search results in the UK:
Search results in other countries:
Results when searching for WW2 leaders:
The images on the search results are taken from Wikipedia, it’s not clear to me why this would break in only the UK and the US. It’s especially interesting given the current controversy around Churchill in our countries. Even more interesting is that pictures of Hitler, Stalin and Mao are shown with no issues.
Can you please reinstate Churchill’s picture, and if not, can you explain why you won’t?
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We’re aware an image for Sir Winston Churchill is missing from his Knowledge Graph entry on Google. We apologise for any concern. This was not purposeful & will be resolved. Images in such panels are automatically created & updated. During an update, they can briefly disappear.
If a Knowledge Graph image is missing due to an update, the subject will be named but lack an image in anything automatically generated from the Knowledge Graph. This is why Churchill’s image (but not his name) is missing from some lists. It is temporary & will be resolved.
The image issue only applies to Knowledge Graph-generated information. Many images of Churchill are easily found through both web and image searching on Google.
Some have noted that Churchill’s first term does not appear for a search on UK prime ministers that shows an automatically generated Knowledge Graph list. This is not specific to Churchill; a similar thing happens with Wilson, MacDonald and Baldwin.
We’re exploring why the first terms for Churchill, Wilson, MacDonald & Baldwin are not shown. It might be that our systems are only displaying the last term of prime ministers who had non-consecutive terms. We’ll seek to address this to avoid any unintentional concern.
We don’t have an exact time for when Churchill’s Knowledge Graph image will be restored, but it will be as rapidly done as possible. We’ll want to explore exactly why an automatic update caused it to disappear & see if there are any improvements in those systems to address.
When the Knowledge Graph image is restored for Churchill, his image will again be shown in Knowledge Graph-generated content, where only his name shows now. Again, apologies for concern caused. You can learn more about how our Knowledge Graph works here.
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Hi Shirgar,
I did a search for "UK Prime Ministers" in the US and then checked the carousel at the top for Winston Churchill's picture. I didn't see it, but then click on the arrow to the right so that more pictures would show up and here is what I saw. It looks like a default picture.
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Hi,
Yes, that is the issue - the picture of Churchill has been removed and replaced by a default, blank image. As stated in my question, this happens in the UK and US, but not in other countries.
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Then I did an image search for Winston Churchill. I scrolled down the page and couldn't see the default picture that showed up in the carousel at the top when you and I did the "UK Prime Minister" image search.
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I will escalate this and see what I can find out.
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We’re aware an image for Sir Winston Churchill is missing from his Knowledge Graph entry on Google. We apologise for any concern. This was not purposeful & will be resolved. Images in such panels are automatically created & updated. During an update, they can briefly disappear.
If a Knowledge Graph image is missing due to an update, the subject will be named but lack an image in anything automatically generated from the Knowledge Graph. This is why Churchill’s image (but not his name) is missing from some lists. It is temporary & will be resolved.
The image issue only applies to Knowledge Graph-generated information. Many images of Churchill are easily found through both web and image searching on Google.
Some have noted that Churchill’s first term does not appear for a search on UK prime ministers that shows an automatically generated Knowledge Graph list. This is not specific to Churchill; a similar thing happens with Wilson, MacDonald and Baldwin.
We’re exploring why the first terms for Churchill, Wilson, MacDonald & Baldwin are not shown. It might be that our systems are only displaying the last term of prime ministers who had non-consecutive terms. We’ll seek to address this to avoid any unintentional concern.
We don’t have an exact time for when Churchill’s Knowledge Graph image will be restored, but it will be as rapidly done as possible. We’ll want to explore exactly why an automatic update caused it to disappear & see if there are any improvements in those systems to address.
When the Knowledge Graph image is restored for Churchill, his image will again be shown in Knowledge Graph-generated content, where only his name shows now. Again, apologies for concern caused. You can learn more about how our Knowledge Graph works here.
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