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What does this even mean?
by antt 8y ago
What 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!