Nigerians have trashed the name of the first black queen to win Miss World, Chief Agbani Darego, on social media due to misinformation on the Google search engine.
On Friday, October 2, 2020, Nigerians accused the American multinational technology company and the world’s best search engine, Google, of listing former beauty queen Agbani Darego as the ugliest Miss World.
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Is Agbani Darego the ugliest Miss World?
NO! she was crowned Miss World in 2001. she was the first African woman to win Miss World. Agbani Darego is still one of the most beautiful women in the world. No article on the internet lists Agbani as the ugliest Miss World, that was misinformation.
What is Google Search?
Google search engines work by crawling hundreds of billions of pages using their own indexing tools. These web crawlers are commonly called search engine bots or spiders. A search engine navigates the web by downloading web pages and following links on those pages to discover new pages that are available.
Did Google include Agbani as the ugliest Miss World?
On October 2, a quick Google search for ‘Who is the ugliest Miss World?’ Agbani Darego’s Wikipedia will show, “Chief Agbani Darego, MFR (born Agbani Darego, December 22, 1982) is a Nigerian model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss of the World in 2001. She was the first native African woman to win Miss World”
Why did Google name Agbani Darego the ugliest Miss World?
“It’s a bug related to the criteria used by Google to select data pulled as an answer or part of an answer to certain questions. This can and will be fixed eventually, and while this is a bit of misinformation about the entity in question , the inaccuracy highlights another Google mistake,” wrote searchenginejournal.
There are more than 100 search engines in the world, but none of them are perfect. Google as the holy grail has been impressive with the results it offers. Google doesn’t need a specific name or subject name to get the answer you’re looking for, and there are certainly situations where answers, or at least parts of answers, are wrong.
The example below from Google listed Ice Cube’s net worth, but then suggested other similar searches, including a photo of rapper Vanilla Ice representing (another) rapper, Ice-T.
Another example involves actor James Earl Jones and the honorary Oscar he received. A simple search that mentions the two main entities in the query (Earl Jones and Oscars) returns many quality results.
But he also says that James Earl Jones is dead after a year-long battle with ovarian cancer (a passage from his Wikipedia page actually listing the death of Jones’ wife, Cecilia Hart).
How did bloggers and Nigerians destroy the name Agbani Darego in Google search?
As we said above; “Google search engines work by indexing hundreds of billions of pages using their own crawlers” As of Saturday, October 3, 2020, a search for ‘Who is the ugliest Miss World’ on Google will result in an answer short and simple that becomes a featured extract from the DailyPost.
Featured Response Snippet: “Agbani Darego, the first African woman to win the Miss World beauty pageant.”
At the time of this report, ‘Who is the ugliest Miss World’ ranked as the most searched keyword on Google in the last 24 hours with hundreds of pages.
Dear Nigerians, please resist the temptation to ramble on about things you don’t understand.
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