A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration. | Reuters 
Tech

When Google Home could not recognise Jesus

According to reports, Google Home can identify Buddha, Muhammad and Satan but could not provide any details about Jesus. 

From our online archive

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Home's incapability to answering questions about Jesus has led the company to bar the device from answering questions about all religious figures, the media reported.

When people asked their speaker 'Who is Jesus?' the general response from Google Home seems to be "I'm not sure how to help you with that.", Daily Mail reported on Friday.

Google issued a statement saying it would disable answers for all major religious figures.

"The reason the Google Assistant didn't respond with information about 'Who is Jesus' or 'Who is Jesus Christ' wasn't out of disrespect but instead to ensure respect," Danny Sullivan, Google's public search liasion, tweeted the statement on Friday.

"Some of the Assistant's spoken responses come from the web, and for certain topics, this content can be more vulnerable to vandalism and spam."

According to reports, Google Home can identify Buddha, Muhammad and Satan but could not provide any details about Jesus.

Until the issue is fixed, according to the statement, all responses for questions about religious figures will be temporarily unavailable, fortune.com reported.

Is Akhilesh Yadav adopting ‘soft Hindutva’ ahead of 2027 poll battle?

Visas a 'sovereign' matter, says MEA as Tharoor alleges 115 Bharat Summit speakers barred

Bessent blames Lutnick's Commerce Department for not restricting Nvidia chips to China

What IAF's Gajraj landing at Nyoma, the border with China, means

India joins 50 nations in call for ‘safe, sustained and unhindered’ humanitarian aid access to Gaza