The victim of this latest botch was Hristo Georgiev, an engineer based in Switzerland.
Seems like Google falsely associated a photo of mine with a Wikipedia article of a serial killer.
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He suspects the algorithm matched his picture to the Wikipedia entry because the now-dead killer shared his name.
Georgiev is far from the first victim of the knowledge graph misfiring.
In Georgievs case, the issue was swiftly resolved.
After reporting the bug to Google, the company removed his image from the killers infobox.
Georgiev gave credit to theHackerNews communityfor accelerating the response.
Other victims, however, may not be so lucky.
If they never find the error or struggle to resolve it the misinformation could have troubling consequences.
Story byThomas Macaulay
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
