Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls
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#3> My first encounter with racism in search was in 2009 when I was talking to a friend who causally mentioned one day, “You should see what happens when you Google ‘black girls.’” I did and was stunned.
> These are the details of what a search for “black girls” would yield for many years, despite that the words “p__n,” “p__nography,” or “s*x” were not included in the search box
Nonsense. The writer doesn't show the search results for "White Girls" in 2009. I bet it would be very similar.
Of course, there's no way to confirm that now, is there, since Google have long fixed their search results to include or exclude NSFW, enable 'safe search' and such, and the author did a search only for 'black girls' in 2009 to "confirm" his hunches.
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#4Back in the 90s, search engines were notorious for serving back lots of porn links interspersed with whatever thing you were looking for. I was unusual (apparently) in that my searches tended to be really specific and I rarely got a lot of porn results. Except one time. I was looking for information on gun violence in Europe and I was getting back not just a few porn results, but lots and lots of them. I was using really simple queries, so I was able to quickly isolate the offending term.
It was: "Sweden".
(Most likely this was on Alta Vista, not Google, but I don't remember for sure.)
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#6> In 2012, I wrote an article for Bitch Magazine
Seems ironic.
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#7All: we're aware that this article may have an ideological slant that is either positive or negative depending on your own views, but it also has interesting content. Please react to the factual information and steer well clear of any ideological yay-nay combat.
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#8> My first encounter with racism in search was in 2009 when I was talking to a friend who causally mentioned one day, “You should see what happens when you Google ‘black girls.’” I did and was stunned. > These are the details of what a search for “black girls” would yield for many years, despite that the words “p__n,” “p__nography,” or “s*x” were not included in the search box Nonsense. The writer doesn't show the se…
You might wanna scroll down, to the section entitled "Beyond black girls."
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#9> “p-ssy,” as a noun
You are allowed to say fuck on the internet.
Also, does it really count if you skip out one letter? I never understood this. You're still all but saying the word. Nobody is being protected here lol. A kid can cycle through the five vowels in about half a second to figure out what the word is, and one of them is also kinda a swear - pissy.
EDIT: "n 2012, I wrote an article for Bitch Magazine" now I'm very confused. It's ok if it's a proper noun, I guess?
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#10At least they have an open source operating system. Let's not forget Microsoft exploiting generational racial poverty.