Google Retards ?
SEroundtable Pointed me to to a story about “Another Insulting Algorithmic Search Result from Google” I didn’t want to blog about the swastika on Google Trends, but this is kinda odd, when you search for Special People you get :
Ok WTF !
DaveN
Matt 1307 days ago
Unless I’m much mistaken that’s the founding members of Microsoft in the picture you’ve highlighted…they may be “Special People” but they are damn rich ones.
I love finding these slip ups, especially now universal search is dropping images into normal results. Barely a week goes by without a Google result brightening up my day. This week’s “brightening” came when I did a search for “religious leaders” and got this image appear at top of the results (it is safe to open at work). Now, I’m assuming that is not the Pope and I don’t remember seeing a nun ever dressed like that but maybe it is a last ditch attempt to get the congregation levels back up again.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=8KZ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=religious+leaders&spell=1
Terry Howard 1306 days ago
http://www.terryhoward.net/I guess the Google bomb lives after all. I think suggesting the alternative search term of “retards” is fairly offensive, though, the mac fan inside of me feels compelled to say “seems an accurate enough result to me”.
A search for “little people” however does not return “midgets” so they seem to cover their bases on some areas of political correctness. Interesting.
Matt Cutts 1306 days ago
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/By the time I went to mention this to someone at Google, the right folks had already seen it. So I’m happy that there are multiple Googlers keeping an eye on the web..
Kyle 1306 days ago
Wow, that was a quick fix. I wonder why it happened in the first place, but it is good to see that Google was so quick to react. Wish I would agree with Google more often….
Mubin 1304 days ago
http://www.mubinahmed.comThis is better than the time when if you did a search for “she invented”.
I didn’t know Matt Cutts also reads this blog?
Social Marketing Journal 1303 days ago
http://socialmarketingjournal.comWow this is quite interesting…. and even more interesting that Matt Cutts keeps up with this! Kudos for a great find!
Maryjane 1302 days ago
http://fuckknows.Yeah, Im a RETARD. Thought i’d drop in and say.