Google Responds After Trump Tweet: Search Results Aren't Politically Biased

Responding to President Donald Trump, Google says its search is not used to set a political agenda and the results are not biased toward any political ideology.

Google said Tuesday that when users search for content, "our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds."

The Mountain View, California-based tech company says it makes "hundreds of improvements" to its algorithms every year to ensure "high-quality content" is returned in response to users' queries.

Adds Google: "We never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment."

On Twitter on Tuesday, Trump accused Google - without evidence - of "suppressing" conservative voices and "hiding information" and good news.

Trump has made similar complaints recently, but he targeted Google on Tuesday. Trump said in a pre-dawn tweet that included a typo that a search for "Trump News" on Google "shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD."

He adds, "Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal?"

Trump also claimed without evidence that 96 percent of the "Trump News" search results are from "National Left-Wing Media."

He says this is a "very serious situation-will be addressed!"

Democratic Senator Chris Coons says there are reasons to be concerned about the power of companies like Google. But still opposed the president's tweet.

"For the President to jump from 'I don't like my search results on Google this morning' to tweeting 'we need to regulate one of the largest fastest growing most creative companies in the American economy' is a bridge too far."

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)