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Democratic Party symbol has been changed to a rat within the Google search
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoLikely the image was changed on Wikipedia and by pure chance Google was spidering the page during the time the altered image was active. If so, going through the image and page history on Wikipedia should point to when it happened.
- onewhonknocks 7y agoInteresting! It still hasn't been fixed.
- gipp 7y agoFixed now.
- gus_massa 7y agoI agree that it is the most probable explanation, but I can't find that in the history of the article. Is there a Wikiblame?
- defterGoose 7y agoNow if we could only manage the same thing with the GOP, but with a wooly mammoth...
- mrlonglong 7y agoThey did, using Nazi symbology sometime ago. https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-california-gop-nazism/ https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-california-gop-naz...
- throwGuardian 7y agoI think Google AI is choosing a more appropriate animal, after reviewing the Democratic primary debates so far?
- Minor49er 7y agoThe story doesn't mention that the logo came from a forum on a site called Armchair General. The logo was the start of a joke thread that announced the image as the new Democrat Party logo. Chances are that Google saw this site as being somewhat reputable/popular, found the image, used the phrasing as a signal, and noticed the post time. Those could have been enough points to automatically get the logo updated. At least that's my assumption so far, anyways.
- knolax 7y agoknowledge panel has been so consistently bad that it's a wonder people don't complain more. Half the time all I get is a random irrelevant excerpt from some website with all the formatting screwed up. If you're multilingual it'll show up as a random mix of two or three languages too.
- rurban 7y ago> since the image is not representative to the entity. Arguably it is.