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> And 20 years ago it didn’t even exist. When Tony Blair became prime minister, it wasn’t possible to Google him: the search engine had yet to be invented. The

> And 20 years ago it didn’t even exist. When Tony Blair became prime minister, it wasn’t possible to Google him: the search engine had yet to be invented. The company was only founded in 1998 and Facebook didn’t appear until 2004. Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are still only 43. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is 32. Everything they’ve done, the world they’ve remade, has been done in the blink of an eye. Facepalm.jpg Yeah, google's flawed and its results are an interesting sociological resource. The fact "are Jews evil" is a top auto complete makes sense. I know large portions of the population that think that way. And Google returning an echo chamber result makes sense from a "these links may be of interest to your query" since they are. Google isn't there to police society - it's use for fake news and product pandering is bad enough - making it police ethics will only hide the ugly bits of humanity - which will then go unfixed.

RyanZAG 10y ago
Except Google does police the auto complete, which makes the one's they don't police stand out. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/08/words_banned_from_bing_and_google_s_autocomplete_algorithms.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0... Article is from 2013, and they do routinely update which words they police. They also now police searching for "Name+Crime", I'd guess to avoid lawsuits. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/andrew-napolitano/did-google-adjust-its-autocomplete-algorithm-hide-/ http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/... I think Google has opened themselves up to critique about allowing this antisemitism by policing other offensive terms. They need to either set up a forum for policing all offensive terms, or avoid policing. Otherwise articles like the OP will continue to plague them.
- godmodus 10y ago
  i wasn't aware of that. talk about digging your own PC grave.

RyanZAG 10y ago

Except Google does police the auto complete, which makes the one's they don't police stand out. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/08/words_banned_from_bing_and_google_s_autocomplete_algorithms.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0... Article is from 2013, and they do routinely update which words they police. They also now police searching for "Name+Crime", I'd guess to avoid lawsuits. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/andrew-napolitano/did-google-adjust-its-autocomplete-algorithm-hide-/ http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/... I think Google has opened themselves up to critique about allowing this antisemitism by policing other offensive terms. They need to either set up a forum for policing all offensive terms, or avoid policing. Otherwise articles like the OP will continue to plague them.

godmodus 10y ago
i wasn't aware of that. talk about digging your own PC grave.