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Have you noticed how search results have evolved?

The Search box.

The Search box with predictive text-like search suggestions.

Results lists

Results lists with adverts.

Results lists with adverts and links to cited sources on the right backing up the Results List.

Results lists with adverts and links to cited sources on the right backing up the Results List and also showing additional search terms and questions in the Results List.

I'm surprised its taken them this long to come up with this...



It’s also really hard to get Google to say bigoted things.

Back in the day, all you had to do was type in “Most Muslims are” and autosuggest would give you plenty of bigotry.


It wasnt just Muslim bigotry, it was also anti-Semitic as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-al...

However the so called free british press have perhaps outed their subconscious bias with their reporting and coverage!!!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6967071/Google...

This is already documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome


That’s relatively easy to fix, since autocomplete was probably working on just the most frequent queries and/or phrases. You could manually clean up the dataset.




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