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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Google's Search Result Blunder

Well.... you guys gonna love this for sure and i am sure if the person involved in this would have seen this.. He would ask questions to Google lol.

Ok, so it  was rainy day and FIFA 14 fever was on the rise. I just finished watching the Germans thrashing the Brazilians 7 - 1. After this match, i had nothing to do, so i started searching for underworld dons and wanted in India.

While browsing i stumbled upon a character named 'Sharad Shetty' - One of the top aides of D's Boss and the man who used to control betting racket.

I searched for this guy and was astonished to see the result, refer below snapshot:


Well, at the very first sight i saw the image of a young guy carrying a bag on his shoulder appeared in what Google calls as Knowledge Graph.

For a moment i was stunned and couldn't believe the fact that 'How can a young guy like him' control international betting racket and chains of hotel in Dubai.

So thought of further investigation, i again searched the same name in Google Image Search and see what i found -
                           Source: http://www.geocities.ws/organizedcrimesyndicates/shetty-sharod1.jpg


Yes, above image is of Sharad Shetty who died in an Gang war inside a hotel in Dubai...

Well, now it was all clear in my mind that something is wrong with Knowledge Graph. So went ahead to investigate who the other guy was..

So i again went back to Google Web Search and searched for the name, after that i clicked on the image of the guy whose image was being pulled and guys believe me i still cant believe Google can do such blunder...

Se the result below -


                               Sourcehttp://mypage.rediff.com/sharad-shetty/31511130

OMG!! this is a common Guy from a City in the state of Maharashtra (India) who is a teenage may be and going to college.. Check his profile details.

How cruel it can be .. the person is a youngster and is being projected as a Dubai based gangster, top aides of D boss and the most funniest part born 1979 - died 2003..

One More Observation

Knowledge graph shows born as 1979(Some other source) while the first result in the SERP shows born as 1954(Wikipedia), Refer snapshot -



After all Google is a machine it happens to do such blunders and it still works on keywords based queries... if you go in-depth then you would know that 'Sharad Shetty's' image of picture is not that much around the web and may be the young guys profile may have been tagged as Gangster. don't know the reason.
however i am just afraid if this happens again and this time apart from a young guy a great politician/personality appear... then would want to see the consequences.

Any ways for now hope Google sees this and correct the same.

Written By Vijayraj Nadar

I have been working in the field of digital marketing with 4 years of experience, i have handled many clients right from stock market broker, online eCommerce store. you can find me on my  or Twitter Profile