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> Google search is barely political Search for "american mathematician" on Google and the first six images that come back with the search results are of black
by juniper_strong 6y ago
> Google search is barely political
Search for "american mathematician" on Google and the first six images that come back with the search results are of black mathematicians, 3 of them women.
That is political.
Nothing wrong with female or black mathematicians, the more the better, but that's not how it went down.
If I worked at Google and they asked me to code that, I would have said, "Sure, I can do that", which would be a non-political decision, but whoever decided on how that should be implemented was making a political decision.
- jariel 6y agoYes, it's political but in the grand scheme of searches, it's almost irrelevant. 99.99% of searches are just searches, and that's it.
- juniper_strong 6y agoWho gets to decide what is a political search and what isn't? And why do they get to decide that?