The NY Times is showing their own bias here, ignoring the cases when Google's algorithms favor black people, like a search for "American inventors". https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American%20inventors Google's algorithms are imperfect but the NY Times is cherry picking results to favor a particular political agenda.
That doesn't contradict the article in any way. The article observes that the inadvertent bias in search results tends to reproduce real-world bias against minorities. It makes no claim that the same frequency mining algorithms cannot also skew results in other unintended ways, like matching "African American Inventors" to your query. Claiming otherwise is dishonest.
Painting a misleading picture of the whole situation by ignoring evidence that doesn't suit their agenda is dishonest.