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Google Retards ?

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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 :

retards

Ok WTF !

Special People

DaveN

7 Comments

  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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..

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  • 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….

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  • Mubin 1304 days ago

    http://www.mubinahmed.com

    This is better than the time when if you did a search for “she invented”.

    I didn’t know Matt Cutts also reads this blog?

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  • Social Marketing Journal 1303 days ago

    http://socialmarketingjournal.com

    Wow this is quite interesting…. and even more interesting that Matt Cutts keeps up with this! Kudos for a great find!

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  • Maryjane 1302 days ago

    http://fuckknows.

    Yeah, Im a RETARD. Thought i’d drop in and say. :)

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