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Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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Could it be possibly because of some badly written word filter? I’m hinting at the second part of his last name. The extra “g” is there because that’s how it’s spelled in German language, and yes, the translation is what you would guess.

Schwarz is black?

Google says:

From Schwarzenegg +‎ -er, literally “someone from Schwarzenegg”, referring to either of two places in Switzerland and Austria, from schwarz (“black”) +‎ Egg (“ridge”), cognate with Ecke.

Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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post #11
post #10

FYI many of these top results are Manually curated / created. I'd wager that to be the reason.

And a manual curator would omit arnie for what reason?

If it's truly manual it could simply be a mistake.

Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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post #8

How about EU-issued "right to be forgotten"? Is it possible that Arnie requested being removed from all the search results?

CCPA Sounds right - even searching for his name results in a different header of his son Patrick https://www.google.com/search?q=arnold+schwarzenegger

Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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If you search for arnold schwarzenegger, there are results about him, but there is no infobox. So it seems he is gone from the "clever parts" of search, but not from normal results. Amusingly, one time I searched for arnold scharzenegger I got an infobox about his son Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger, but this was once-only thing, I did save a screenshot to prove it though.

Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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I tried the query in other search engines:

- Bing shows a similar carousel as Google at the top but here Arnold is the first image.

- DuckDuckGo doesn't show a direct answer. First results are IMDb and Wikipedia.

- Kagi is similar to DuckDuckGo, no direkt answer, IMDb and Wikipedia first. Where it gets interesting is the third result. It is a link to a Google query for the phrase: "Why doesn't Arnold Schwarzenegger show up in this query on Google?"

Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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post #12

Could it be possibly because of some badly written word filter? I’m hinting at the second part of his last name. The extra “g” is there because that’s how it’s spelled in German language, and yes, the translation is what you would guess.

Schwarz is black? Google says: From Schwarzenegg +‎ -er, literally “someone from Schwarzenegg”, referring to either of two places in Switzerland and Austria, from schwarz (“black”) +‎ Egg (“ridge”), cognate with Ecke.

While true, it’s also true that “neger” is the German word for “negro” and the last time I was in Bavaria also a certain type of dark chocolate covered donut. I’m not sure if the word is considered outmoded or politically incorrect as it is in English.

Re: Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?

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post #8

How about EU-issued "right to be forgotten"? Is it possible that Arnie requested being removed from all the search results?

He's missing from seemingly any search results about movies when query string is "cast of "

But he's there when searching "Mr Olympia 1970s" : https://www.google.com/search?q=mr+olympia+1970s

So maybe not RTBF.

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