Internet event forces Google to associate Pakistan flag with toilet paper

Some days, when a user is searching to find the best toilet paper in the world, he finds an unexpected result.

Instead of just appearing a series of paper rolls of different brands, you will find publications in which the Pakistan flag appears. It should be mentioned that this does not happen during a search in Spanish but in English (try "best toilet paper in the world").

Until now, it is thought that these results are the result of the intervention of Indian groups in protest against the attack perpetrated in the Kashmir region, during which some forty soldiers are dead. The attack was claimed by the group of Islamist insurgents Jaish-e-Mohammad based in Pakistani territory.

The connection in the search engine was established after the conflict and became a trend on social networks over the weekend. One possibility is that people who have searched for the connection influence Google's results.

It is notorious that many of the results are screenshots of images obtained by users during the aforementioned search.

Anyway, it's a weakness or a loophole in the system used by Google to develop its responses that allows a protest movement big enough to alter the results not only regionally, but around the globe.

Indeed, the number of users who joined the event has reached what can be described as a virtual escrache. The only problem is that beyond India, for many people who observe these results, the context and significance of the action will be unknown and will simply appear as a joke of bad taste against a neighboring country.