Great Moments in Google: Try Googling "American scientists" and see what Google gives you: http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-google-american-inventors/ …pic.twitter.com/GFjDYIavIv
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I posted on Google's hilarious results for "American inventors" and "American scientists" two years ago: http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-google-american-inventors/ … Very little has changed since then. This kind of propaganda is what Google, much of the public, and the media want us to see.
Or it's a simple edge case in their algorithm, that also exists in duckduckgo's, yahoo's, and bing's. Google has an ideology and I they do many things unfairly, both in an economic and political sense, but this doesn't look like an example. Not everything is a conspiracy.
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The notion that Google's amusing "American scientists" result is a slave to some simple-minded algorithm doesn't give Google enough credit. They specifically adjust for all sorts of problems with their results. Google just doesn't see 90% black scientists as a problem.
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Agree with you in this last tweet. However, while I don't think their search results (or bings or Yahoo's etc.) are a fair and reasonable representation, is it harmful? I don't think so. Their internal political culture and some of the other things they do? Different story.
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