Another funny thing is that if you go to Google's Mexican site, http://Google.Mx , and search for "inventors Americano," you'll get back a less silly list of American inventors than you do from http://Google.com :pic.twitter.com/b3VWoeIwLO
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Another funny thing is that if you go to Google's Mexican site, http://Google.Mx , and search for "inventors Americano," you'll get back a less silly list of American inventors than you do from http://Google.com :pic.twitter.com/b3VWoeIwLO
Bing's list of the top 50 "American inventors" is not as overwhelmingly black as http://Google.com 's amusing list. But neither one has room for the Wright Brothers, inventors of the airplane, among their Top 50 American inventors.
Leaving out the Wright Brothers in accounts of American history is not uncommon these days. In 2010, I read a 1277-page AP US History textbook, "Nation of Nations," which never mentioned the Wright Bros.
Maybe anti-Wrightism is part of #WarOnWhiteFlight?
https://vdare.com/articles/that-texas-schoolbook-massacre-have-critics-actually-looked-at-current-high-school-history-texts …pic.twitter.com/Iu7C3mTCOo
Interesting. "American mathematicians" produces a parallel result. "American physicists" doesn't.
On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. — Charles Babbage, Life of a Philosopher
Good thing they dont manipulate search results for political reasons!
Did you know Silicon Valley was created by Indian H-1Bs?
White men predominately from the Midwestern states created Silicon Valley.
In fairness this may be an algorithm thing "Africa American". Searching US inventors yields different results
Unlikely semantic search should look for context. And that's the wrong context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search …
That may be so, but it is hitting a bunch of sites with lists of "Top African American Inventors"pic.twitter.com/BfwQNQF1G9
And amusingly enough, it's returning lots of discussions of this very topic, strengthening the association. It's easy to game the algorithm even accidentally.
I googled "British inventors": the results 98% white men (Ada Lovelace is the token woman). I suspect once The Guardian clues into this it will be changed.
I really thought you were screwing with us
Sailer's people confirmed:https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/90047073/ …
i think there may be something else to it like US scientists gives something else perhaps when people wanted to look at black scientists they started using "african american scientists" so the algorithim just shows black scientists when you write american scientists
who knows for sure tho
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