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Thanks for the report, that looks like a bug. I've passed it along.

• burfog 7y ago
  I'd like to think it is a bug, but I wasn't born yesterday. You were caught. The behavior is consistent. Another interesting search is American inventors. Out of the first 16 featured with photos, only one (Thomas Edison at #5) is not black. It mostly continues that theme for all 56 featured, not even getting to the Wright brothers. It's been that way for a while, as seen in this article from 2.5 years ago: http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-google-american-inventors/ http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-google-american-i... Another interesting search is for the_donald. It is pretty clear that the subreddit should appear first, probably followed by the old.reddit.com version. Right now it is fourth, mixed in with a lot of far-left hate and conspiracies. The second link is a conspiracy claiming that /r/The_Donald is run by Russians!!! It was even worse last week, being totally missing from the search results -- but that was starting to become a news story, so it got "fixed" to be subtle. You have a bit of a PR crisis forming here. The idea to abandon Google is spreading. Once lost, trust is hard to regain.
  • moultano 7y ago
    The issue with the "american inventors" query is a well known issue in information retrieval called "compound intrusion." The phrase "american inventors" occurs most often in web documents as a substring of "african american inventors" and unless you specifically exclude that from the results, it tends to dominate, producing the list of people you see there. If you search for "US inventors" you get a more reasonable list, because "US" isn't a substring of "african american."