Google restores Joe Biden to ‘US presidents' search results, blames ‘data error' for omission

"There was a brief data error in our knowledge graph," a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement to CNBC on Thursday. A knowledge graph is a broad term used to describe a system that holds connected information. "We identified the root cause and resolved it quickly."CNBC tried searching for U.S. presidents on Wednesday night and also encountered the results that omitted Biden. The company restored Biden to its results on Thursday.Users on Wednesday noticed that results for search queries that incl ...