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Checkout trader's joe logo on Google
- elietoubi 4y agoNot sure how someone pulled that out? Maybe internal employee
- codefreeordie 4y agoThis sort of thing happens from time to time. The most common cause is wikipedia vandalism that gets indexed, though in this case it seems to be a very highly-ranked image search result for the image on reason.com. It's fairly common for these things to appear, and also surprisingly common for them to last a long time after they come to light, unless a Grade AA stink is made about it. As a general rule, Google won't remove something like this directly from their index unless they "have to", and will instead add it to the training/test set for their "bad result" model and will then wait until the models take it down themselves (if they ever do). Though if this post gets enough attention, it'll probably get fixed in a few days.
- convery 4y ago> Though if this post gets enough attention, it'll probably get fixed in a few days. Was just fixed for me at least, both .com and .se no longer shows any logo.
- amaranth 4y agoSeems like this is just Googlebombing. People do it all the time, most famous was "miserable failure" returning images of George W Bush.
- codefreeordie 4y agoOh, there were so many famous ones For at least an entire year, "French military victories" top result was "did you mean French military defeats" For several weeks, Google reported the "political philosophy" of the California Republican Party to be "Nazism". And of course there was what happened to Rick Santorum (which remained in place for at least an entire election cycle despite gaining fairly widespread attention at the time)
- jhugo 4y agoIt's just boring old gaming of the algorithms, unlikely any human at Google was involved in selecting that image.
- tsavo 4y agoThe image links back to a blog/article which references Trader Joe's. If an algorithm is selecting the 'most appropriate image' for a search of a Store or Brand, that is worrisome as it will surely be gamed.
- dragonwriter 4y agoPolitical Google bombing has been a thing for a long time, and while the details of how it is done and what it acheives changes, it probably will be for a very long time in the future.
- convery 4y agoYep, and there's not much google can do about it as every metric can be gamed. Remember the "upvote this thread so that this image is the first result when searching for [politicians name]" campaigns on Reddit the past 6 years? =P
- bombcar 4y agoFor those not seeing it not scrolling down, the “Google info” is showing a logo that clearly referenced Biden and says “Traitor Joe”. Either TJs has gone unexpectedly political or Google’s AI is going weird again.
- yuppiepuppie 4y agoMight be geolocation based? I’m in Europe and don’t see it.
- virgulino 4y agoI'm in Brazil and I see it.
- virgulino 4y agoIt's gone.
- porjo 4y agoI'm in Australia and I see it
- randomdata 4y agoI see it on desktop but not mobile.
- foobarbecue 4y agoI see it on mobile (USA)
- kube-system 4y agoI don’t (USA)
- convery 4y agoSweden: Saw it 5 minutes ago, now there's no logo at all.
- aimor 4y agoOn Google News something that drives me crazy is when the thumbnail image next to an article isn't actually in the article.
- fsckboy 4y agoomg yes, worst thing ever. also, when the thumbnail does not appear in the youtube video.
- exolymph 4y agoScreenshot since I assume this will be fixed pretty quickly: https://i.imgur.com/WCbvynl.png https://i.imgur.com/WCbvynl.png
- userbinator 4y agoI wonder if the thought occurred to them to extract the image from the top result site instead of whatever else their AI thought would be appropriate. Yes, that can also be gamed, but at least they'll be consistent.
- elietoubi 4y agoimgur is down for me. https://twitter.com/elietoubiana/status/1570262868825894914 https://twitter.com/elietoubiana/status/1570262868825894914
- latchkey 4y agoImage is gone now for me.
- louismerlin 4y agoI did not find an English source, but a French energy giant got its google description replaced by a tweet by a left wing politician two weeks ago. It seems it was an algorithm malfunction. https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/profiteur-de-la-crise-la-description-google-de-totalenergies-modifiee-a-cause-d-un-probleme-d-indexation-2259767 https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/profiteur-de-la-crise...
- readams 4y agoDon't see the Biden logo, but I happen to be traveling in France and the top result is perhaps even worse: https://imgur.com/a/SdCrl8G https://imgur.com/a/SdCrl8G Crypto scam spam
- elietoubi 4y agoSeems like it got fixed in most geos Here is an image for posterity: https://twitter.com/elietoubiana/status/1570262868825894914 https://twitter.com/elietoubiana/status/1570262868825894914
- jjmorrison 4y agoLooks like it's fixed :(
- buildbot 4y agoUnrelated but fun fact: There was a Pirate Joes in Vancouver BC that existed solely to resell TJ's goods, it was awesome