Thursday, November 26, 2009



Google resists censorship pressure sometimes

We read:
"GOOGLE is running advertisements to explain the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material in search results, including a picture which depicts US First Lady Michelle Obama as a monkey.

"Sometimes Google search results from the internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries," the US search giant said in an ad signed The Google Team. "We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google," the company said.

The Google ad appears on a page of image search results for Michelle Obama which includes the offensive depiction of the wife of President Barack Obama.

"Search engines are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the internet," Google said. "The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results."

Google said it will remove pages from search results if they violate the company's guidelines but it "views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority". "Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it," Google said.

Source

I'm glad they stick to principle sometimes, even if they feel the need to apologize for it. Will they also apologize for including abuse of Christians in their searches?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Abusing Christians is apparently within "their guidelines". Of course, anything that disagrees with their Leftist political agenda is NOT within their guidelines.

Es said...

By the way, googling images for "George Bush" also results in Bush equated to monkey on the 1st page. Nobody seems to be bothered though.

Anonymous said...

Anon 419, if you don't like what Google does, then don't use Google. Also, shut the fuck up about it.

Bobby said...

"Anon 419, if you don't like what Google does, then don't use Google. Also, shut the fuck up about it."

---The whole point of living in a democracy is that you don't have to shut up the fuck about it. Google happens to be the best search engine because they have a unique algorithm that no other search engine has.

However, there is room for improvement and people have the right to petition the company for said improvement and the company can ignore them at their peril.