Helicopter crash

Death of a President

The President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi passed away in a helicopter crash. How does this appear online?

In the knowledge panel, he’s already listed as former, with a date of death. 

There’s a link to a news articles about the acting President and there’s a tweet from Raisi’s account. 

There is a news box containing links to various articles

His infobox is also updated

The rest of Page 1 contains various articles about his death and what’s next. 

What about AI?

Gemini is still processing

While CoPilot has to come up to speed

His Wikipedia article has a current events tag on it

While the crash has its own article

There is already a related question in People Also Ask

All of this has in turn, affected the search results of Mohammad Mokhber who’s now the acting President of Iran. 

Of course if this was just a regular person passing away, their results wouldn’t change as quickly. But the President of a country passing away, especially Iran and further so in these times, well it’s going to be updated by the moment. 

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