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 Google has addressed an issue with its search engine that displayed different results for voting-related searches, sparking baseless conspiracy theories. Google confirmed that the search engine was working as intended due to a naming conflict between candidates and locations. Despite this clarification, the company decided to change how the "where to vote" panel appears in response to these searches.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/google-fixes-issues-with-voting-search-results-that-werent-actually-broken/