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Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« on: November 28, 2009, 01:05:18 PM »

Google Explains Offensive Michelle Obama Image in Search Results

By KI MAE HEUSSNER
Nov. 24, 2009


If you use Google to search for a picture of First Lady Michelle Obama, brace yourself for an unpleasant surprise.

Google uses ad space to explain why an offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama tops search results.
(ABC News Photo Illustration)

Depending on your Web browser's settings, the first image to surface in Google Image's search engine could be an offensive image of the First Lady ostensibly photo-edited to resemble a monkey.

Originally spotted by Search Engine Roundtable, after a Google user reported it to a Google Web search help forum, the offensive image was apparently hosted by the Web site buzzoverm.blogspot.com.

Google last week removed the image saying the site hosting the image was serving malware to visitors. But, the photo has turned up again, this time on another Web site, a "hot girls" blog.



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I find it messed up that Google will Kowtow to the Obamas and yet, they still have pictures of GWB as compared to a chimp. I'm reconsidering my search engine choices.
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2009, 01:16:34 PM »
Google is a very liberal company. I am not surprised by this at all.
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2009, 04:36:42 PM »
Well, making fun of POTUS is ok.   Making fun of family is beyond the pale. 

And comparing a white guy to a chimp does not bring up so many ghosts from the swamps as doing it with a black person.  Double standard to be sure, but that is the world we live in.  0bama was supposed to move us past that, but I think he is moving things backward... and I kind of think he is doing that deliberately. 
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2009, 06:06:35 PM »
Quote from: Baruch Menachem on November 28, 2009, 04:36:42 PM
Well, making fun of POTUS is ok.   Making fun of family is beyond the pale. 

And comparing a white guy to a chimp does not bring up so many ghosts from the swamps as doing it with a black person.  Double standard to be sure, but that is the world we live in.  0bama was supposed to move us past that, but I think he is moving things backward... and I kind of think he is doing that deliberately. 

The irony... Obama is no more black than he is white. ;)
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2009, 06:36:02 PM »
Out of curiosity , I went to google.com/images and typed in Michelle Obama.  There were lots of ugly pictures, of course, but look what was at the top of the results.
Related searches:  michelle obama ape  http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=Michelle+obama&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2009, 07:01:47 PM »
for comparison:
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=michelle+malkin&aq=0&oq=michelle+ma&aqi=g10&start=0

It is worthy of note that several of these are nasty.  It looks like they purged out the 0bama offensives, but included in the Malkin collection are several nasty photoshops.
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2009, 07:06:12 PM »
Also for comparison:

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=ann+coulter&revid=1396409291&ei=ZMgRS62WNZDktAPalM3BAQ&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=1&start=0

also for comparison

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=laura+bush+&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g6&start=0

It does look like the  folks at google are deliberatly playing with the results for the first page now.
As a general rule, lots of rude pictures make the first page of image search.
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Re: Google Uses Ad Space to Explain Why Offensive Image Tops Search Results
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2009, 07:17:13 PM »
The only thing Google is good for is the toolbar that auto filled your personal info (I'm lazy) and a great spell check.
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