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Google puts White House blunder blame on 'racist web users'

May 22, 2015 13:13 IST

Google has identified the culprit behind the White House showing as "n***a house" screw up, and it turns out it's not them, it's you.

According to the tech giant's spokesperson, if an internet user was racist and frequently used such words on the Internet, the map search results will show such words, as their ranking systems were designed to return results that match a person's query, TMZ.com reported.

In short it means that apparently a lot people have calling President Obama's residence as the "n***a house."

However, Google added that they were working to fix the "failure in our system," which could take a while.

The President of the United States Barack Obama -- or @POTUS -- account will allow Obama to communicate directly for the first time.

“Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account," was Obama's first message on the micro blogging site.

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