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While I agree Google's politics mean they are probably less likely to care if GOP candidates are slandered, I don't think it is as simple as "if they aren't rem

While I agree Google's politics mean they are probably less likely to care if GOP candidates are slandered, I don't think it is as simple as "if they aren't removing it, it's intentional". They removed the Michelle Obama thing, but pretty quickly put it back when they got called out on how it was a clear violation of search trust. And like "miserable failure", the algorithms over time adjusted and fixed the problem. I would agree it would be evil if it was intentional, but this a search problem across Google, Bing, Baidu, and many others. Google has been pretty good about responding via improvements rather than just straight banning, except with the temporary Obama thing. I mean, for the longest time they had to buy an ad over searches for "jew" and link to http://www.google.com/explanation.html http://www.google.com/explanation.html despite the background of their founders.

paganel 15y ago
Did they do the same thing for the word "nigger"?
Natsu 15y ago
> They removed the Michelle Obama thing, but pretty quickly put it back when they got called out on how it was a clear violation of search trust. I don't remember the "put it back" part and I can't find the infamous photo any more on Google images unless I add "monkey" as a keyword. But I don't get the point of all this to begin with. Why not focus on real policy differences rather than name calling? As one of those independent voters they're allegedly after, this doesn't help anyone's campaign. I'm going to decide based on what vote does the most good or causes the least harm both in this election and in the future, not based on someone's skill at manipulating Google into accepting slanderous definitions. They're much better off making the case that Romney's position on the issues is untenable, rather than pulling stunts like this.

paganel 15y ago

Did they do the same thing for the word "nigger"?

Natsu 15y ago

> They removed the Michelle Obama thing, but pretty quickly put it back when they got called out on how it was a clear violation of search trust. I don't remember the "put it back" part and I can't find the infamous photo any more on Google images unless I add "monkey" as a keyword. But I don't get the point of all this to begin with. Why not focus on real policy differences rather than name calling? As one of those independent voters they're allegedly after, this doesn't help anyone's campaign. I'm going to decide based on what vote does the most good or causes the least harm both in this election and in the future, not based on someone's skill at manipulating Google into accepting slanderous definitions. They're much better off making the case that Romney's position on the issues is untenable, rather than pulling stunts like this.