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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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.
Why wouldn't it be harmful to distort history and perceptions? And how could the internal political culture be harmful but inert and separate from the actual search engine/algorithm service they provide?
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