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This is hardly new: stories similar to this have appeared every few years since Google started image search. The boring truth is that this is not a monetizable

This is hardly new: stories similar to this have appeared every few years since Google started image search. The boring truth is that this is not a monetizable query, so Google doesn't really care: and that no one except a few white supremacists captions their family snapshots "White woman with white man".

theGeatZhopa 3y ago
Yes, I meant it more generally. In the beginning of Google it was possible to exactly define what you want returned as results with +/- operators, with "" and all the other things that are still possible, but is very hidden in the advanced search. I struggle each time to remember how to activate that advanced search :) At that time, it was possible to define it with image search too. May be there are some guys in here who remember that. I'm using Google from the first start. They've been better than altavista, which actually was the best web crawler then. Yahoo was just a catalog at that time. You got all kinds of images. Including that white with white ... Because it's a common description for porn too :) Over the time, there've been algos introduced, which also consider what your "neighbors" searches for and present it to you as 'the more search for it, the more important it is, the higher the possibility tht you search for it too'. The SEO made everything worse. The problem actually: Google want the general DU to be able to use their services. So it's not only and not everything about that image captions given. It got worse since Google decides what to give you and what relevance it might be for you, instead you tell it what you want. I tried it with advanced Google image search. It showed me the search term "White woman man Man, OR woman ""White woman", "white man"" -Black, -asian, -interracial" If you use this for that exactly search, you'll have more matches. The next thing, it's not about labeling or things like that. It's about indexing and going through index by constraints. The most Images presented are stock images. Stock images have explicit labeling. So it's about the algorithm of Google, that thinks you want to see happy couples together and then it gives you what the most users have accepted for similar searches.

theGeatZhopa 3y ago

Yes, I meant it more generally. In the beginning of Google it was possible to exactly define what you want returned as results with +/- operators, with "" and all the other things that are still possible, but is very hidden in the advanced search. I struggle each time to remember how to activate that advanced search :) At that time, it was possible to define it with image search too. May be there are some guys in here who remember that. I'm using Google from the first start. They've been better than altavista, which actually was the best web crawler then. Yahoo was just a catalog at that time. You got all kinds of images. Including that white with white ... Because it's a common description for porn too :) Over the time, there've been algos introduced, which also consider what your "neighbors" searches for and present it to you as 'the more search for it, the more important it is, the higher the possibility tht you search for it too'. The SEO made everything worse. The problem actually: Google want the general DU to be able to use their services. So it's not only and not everything about that image captions given. It got worse since Google decides what to give you and what relevance it might be for you, instead you tell it what you want. I tried it with advanced Google image search. It showed me the search term "White woman man Man, OR woman ""White woman", "white man"" -Black, -asian, -interracial" If you use this for that exactly search, you'll have more matches. The next thing, it's not about labeling or things like that. It's about indexing and going through index by constraints. The most Images presented are stock images. Stock images have explicit labeling. So it's about the algorithm of Google, that thinks you want to see happy couples together and then it gives you what the most users have accepted for similar searches.