Google respond to accusations about racial slurs

Discussion in 'Google' started by sarahk, Mar 8, 2014.

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    There's a game one of our local radio stations play called ScatterGoogle where listeners give them the start of a google search, the station picks a letter and they read out the best suggestions.

    Example:

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    Someone decided to twist this and put in "Maori are" and got a stack of negative racial stereotypes back and decided that fixing the real problem wasn't as easy as just complaining to Google. Now if you search for "Americans are", "Maori are", "Indians are" nothing gets shown.

    It'll be interesting to see what slips through. For instance I tried "all maori are" and Google still knew not to put up suggestions.

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    I guess Canadians don't get hurt feelings?
     
    sarahk, Mar 8, 2014 IP
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    Annea Well-Known Member

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    Oh yes, we Canadians do get hurt feelings. We're just too polite to complain about it. :D

    I imagine every country search would turn up something similar, no?
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Their censorship is worse than that. They have also censored auto-suggest on many British cities because people were asking questions like, 'Why is X city so full of foreigners?'. Google have censored all that now.

    http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2328565/Google-Blocks-Racist-Search-Suggestions-for-UK-Cities
     
    LeicesterJ, Mar 12, 2014 IP