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The “American Inventor” result is easily explained by being a substring of “African American Inventor”. No conspiracy necessary, it’s just a substring hit.
by jf- 8y ago
The “American Inventor” result is easily explained by being a substring of “African American Inventor”. No conspiracy necessary, it’s just a substring hit.
- antt 8y agoWhat does this even mean?
- jf- 8y agoIt’s a trope that’s supposed to show that google searches are biased in favour of black people. If you search for American inventor you get lots of image hits for black inventors. The real reason for this is that American inventor is a substring of African American inventor, so google shows results containing the superstring.
- antt 8y agoYou're still not making any sense. Why would google show results for a 'superstring'?
- jf- 8y agoWhy don’t you ask them?
- antt 8y agoNone of this works this way. None of this has ever worked this way.
- tomp 8y agoIt doesn’t. Every page that contains “African American inventor” obviously also contains “American inventor”. Stop trolling please.
- antt 8y agoSearch has not worked like that since 1994.
- nkozyra 8y agoThe odds that this is how their search operates are nil.
- diogofranco 8y agoBut it does operate this way, of course. It is just the same effect that causes "earth society" to mostly show results about the superstring "flat earth society"
- nkozyra 8y agoWhy would you assume that simplistic (and not fault tolerant) approach is why you get that result?
- jf- 8y agoOccam’s razor?
- pokemongoaway 8y agoNo, it is actually that flat Earth just got really popular in the last few years. There is a lot of money and promotion force behind it. It seems like at least one group is trying hard to make their opponents view points be seen as synonymous with believing the Earth is flat... Pretty good disinfo strategy!
- eecks 8y agoGoogle really needs to improve their search quality then. Searching for razor doesn't give results for occam's razor.
- jf- 8y agoBecause there aren’t that many pages about it. Also a white American inventor would probably just be referred to as an inventor, without reference to race or nationality. A black inventor would be seen as out of the ordinary, and so be referred to as an African American inventor, stacking the deck in favour of those results.
- eecks 8y agoThis is a guess: I don't think that most people would think "American inventor" when someone says "Inventor"
- Udik 8y agoStrangely it's a "substring hit" that only works for scientists and inventors. The substrings stop matching when you look for "American economists" or "American philosophers".
- jf- 8y agoWorks for American doctor, gives a decent number of black results for American soldier. Exactly what is it going to take for your conspiracy to be disproved? Does Eric Schmidt need to float down on a cloud and walk you through Google’s algorithm?