Former President Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's technology companies haven't had the greatest history, but there has never been any indication that the companies were willing to openly violate their own service to users to cross the candidate… until now.

Several weeks after the attempted assassination of the former president, it became apparent that Google, the biggest and most used search index on the World Wide Web, stopped auto-suggesting anything to do with the shooting that almost took Trump's life, according to The New York Post.

According to the son of the former president, tech corporations are attempting to influence the election by hiding results for the attempted assassination of Trump, which is a major Google feature.

Additionally, it has ignited a probe by the Senate.

The Discovery

Unexpectedly, Google's "Autocomplete" feature seemed to be excluding all suggestions pertaining to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which caught many people off guard.

A Texas congressman and Donald Trump Jr. were among the many social media users who took notice of the anomaly and started sharing screenshots of instances when Google search recommendations were blank when people entered inquiries related to the tragic Pennsylvania rally mass shooting.

Searching the complete phrase "the assassination attempt of" into the Google homepage search bar yields no results mentioning Trump.

Other Attempts

The Post ran a series of test searches on Google using the surnames of former US presidents—including Lincoln, Roosevelt, Ford, Reagan, and Kennedy—followed by the letters "assassi" to observe what autocomplete offered.

A list of relevant search terms concerning the assassinations that they had endured appeared in every case.

But when Trump's name was entered, Autocomplete provided absolutely no alternatives.

Even after entering "Trump assassination attempt" as a keyword, Google did not provide any additional results.

Searches conducted on the July 13 shooting continue to return news stories regarding the incident.

Google's Response

According to a Google representative who talked with The Post, the company has "protections" in place to prevent Autocomplete suggestions "associated with political violence," and no "manual action was taken on these predictions."

“We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date. Of course, Autocomplete is just a tool to help people save time, and they can still search for anything they want to.

"Following this terrible act, people turned to Google to find high quality information– we connected them with helpful results, and will continue to do so,” the spokesperson said.

America's Response

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) posted a screenshot of his own search effort with the words "Can verify" and attracted the attention of thousands of users who were able to replicate the phenomenon once word of it spread.

What Trump Jr. dubbed "intentional election interference" by the search engine was shown in a screenshot that he posted to X.

“Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris. We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable,” he wrote to his 11.7 million followers.

Outrage

The omission outraged Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) who turned to social media to announce his intention to launch a "official inquiry" into the Mountain View, California-based corporation this week.

“Why is Google suppressing the search about the Trump assassination attempt? These are all screenshots from this morning. Has there been a dramatic increase in Truman biographers in the last two weeks?” he asked — refrencing the examples of searches included with his post about results pertaining to Harry Truman instead of Trump.

“I look forward to hearing their response," the Senator wrote.