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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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
I don't think this is done on purpose. It's probably just because of how Google's weighting system works. African-American isn't viewed by the algorithm as a single concept, but as African + American. Which is why this gives you a different result:pic.twitter.com/cT0Y3zyQxU
First, you don't want them fixing anything. It's much better for them to leave it alone because you don't want politics, regardless of whose, to determine what you see. Second, it should fix itself over time. I doubt George Washington Carver is what people are searching for.
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.
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.
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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