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Google is “looking into” a vague AI search response about who won the 2020 US election.

The Verge •
October 28, 2026 • 07:59 PM
• By Jay Peters
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“The Gemini app answers this question more fully but this isn’t the most helpful response on Search,” Google says in a response to the Bluesky user who posted the unhelpful search answer. “We’re looking into this and working to address it.” A few of us at The Verge weren’t able to recreate it, but Ars Technica has a good rundown of the situation with some of its own testing. [Link: Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections | https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/google-ai-gets-cagey-when-asked-who-won-the-2020-elections/ | Ars Technica]

Google is “looking into” a vague AI search response about who won the 2020 US election.

“The Gemini app answers this question more fully but this isn’t the most helpful response on Search,” Google says in a response to the Bluesky user who posted the unhelpful search answer . “We’re looking into this and working to address it.”

A few of us at The Verge weren’t able to recreate it, but Ars Technica has a good rundown of the situation with some of its own testing.

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