It's not on Google though.
Posted on 11/24/2009 8:15:47 PM PST by Steelfish
Google Won't Remove Distorted Michelle Obama Image From Search Engine
November 24, 2009
A crudely altered photograph of Michelle Obama, which often comes up as the first result on a Google image search of her name, will not be removed from the company's search process despite protests that the depiction is racist and repugnant.
"It's offensive to many people, but that alone is not a reason to remove it from our search index," Google spokesman Scott Rubin said. "We have, in general, a bias toward free speech."
The image, which depicts the first lady as having monkey-like features, is posted on a blog called "Hot Girls" without explanation. The blog post also contains several legitimate photographs of Michelle Obama. (The image is also posted on other sites that get high spots.)
Although Google won't alter the search result process that places the offending image in top spots, the company placed a house advertisement above it with the headline, "Offensive Search Results." Clicking on the ad takes the user to a statement that says, "We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google."
The statement apologizes "if you've had an upsetting experience using Google," but it states that a site is not removed from its process unless the content is illegal or violates the company's webmaster guidelines. Rubin said there was nothing in the guidelines that deals with this kind of imagery.
Google has posted similar statements in rare instances, most notably in 2004 when searches on "Jew" resulted in the top spot going to a virulently anti-Semitic site. Rubin said the statement is sometimes used in situations when there are "offensive search results on an innocuous query."
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Still there. #1 image for Michelle Obama. It has been removed from the blog page - but it is still hosted by the site.
Hey...hey...hey!!! You can only do stuff like that to white boys like Bushitler!
In the words of the good Rev. Manning. “The quasi-muslim FREAK and his fist-bumping big dyke of a wife”
It's not on Google though.
I mean Chimpy the Younger Bushitler. Then it’s really, really kewl.
OK. Now THAT is funny!
If this is the picture she does not have monkey like features. She is just ugly.
LMAO! It looks just like her, that’s not altered. It’s just before her full time makeup artist and hair dresser get through trying to make her look like a whitey.
Oh please, google Bush chimp. It they remove all of those they can then remove chewbacca’s.
Feel free to use any of them.
Yes, she does. Her mouth is very ape like. So are some whites. I call it like it is.
I have proof positive that google is racist so whoever thinks this Michelle Obama pic is racist...put this in your pipe and smoke it!
I am only pinging you because I tried to post this Michelle Obama google thread last night in front page news and it was removed. I guess sensitive politically correct people complained. See my last post. So far this thread I have pinged you too has survived because we kept our racism :::rollseyes::: in the back room I guess < / sarcasm >
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LOL! I love it!
I have to agree. They have not one ounce of grace, respect or decorum. It is and always was about winning, not governing. It was about gloating and “in your face” victory for the poor, black man. They are, in the end, just nouveau riche, welfare swine, they got there on someone else’s dime and think they deserve it all and more.
Yikes!!
Isn’t the first one Cynthia McKinney?
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