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Is Google racist????

 
 
View Profile vinsan
 
Reply Thu 20 Aug, 2009 08:05 am
Goto a google.com

Type this string "why are indians" and see the auto-suggestions...

Now do the same thing with this string "why are americans" and see the auto-suggestions...

Indians do get a couple of praiseworthy adjectives ... sadly americans doesnt get any...

Is google racist??
 
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Reply Thu 20 Aug, 2009 08:08 am
absolutely, I'm quite sure all intuitive search engines are racist.
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Reply Thu 20 Aug, 2009 09:32 am

google can't control what words people search for...
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View Profile Gala
 
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Reply Thu 20 Aug, 2009 09:35 am
what he said...
View Profile aidan
 
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Reply Thu 20 Aug, 2009 09:46 am
I think it just means that Indians have a better reputation and a more positive image than Americans.
(What a surprise!)
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Reply Thu 20 Aug, 2009 11:52 am
Region already answered it succinctly, but to expound on it: Google is just pulling up the most common completions to the query and in general Google's algorithms are just big popularity algos, meaning just about everything they rank is reflective of how they are measuring human activity.

A lot of funny ones have been spotted. Here is an example of Google autosuggest humor collected on a blog.
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Reply Fri 21 Aug, 2009 07:36 am
Robert Gentel wrote:
A lot of funny ones have been spotted. Here is an example of Google autosuggest humor collected on a blog.

Those are great! Smile
"Atheism is a non-prophet religion"
"Atheism is a religion like NOT collecting stamps is a hobby"
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