Recently, as most devotees are aware, the Chilkur Balaji temple had decided not to open from June 8 even though the union government had allowed temples to open from that day.
The priest of the temple in a press release today said that Google snippets were wrongly showing that the temple was open since June 8.
As a result, since June 11, some devotees were coming all the way to Chilkur and going back disappointed. And many of them had said that Google was showing the temple as open.
The priest cautioned the devotees not to believe Google but to believe the "panthul" (priest in Telugu).
"The snippets come from an automatic and algorithmic match to the search query, and the content comes from third-party sites," Google said in an emailed statement. "We're always working to improve our algorithms, and we welcome feedback on incorrect information."
The priest requested devotees of the Chilkur deity to report the incorrect information through a "feedback" button at the bottom of the featured snippet.