Posted on 11/03/2013 8:39:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
What do people around the world really think about a woman’s place in the world? Google knows! And any Internet user can easily find out. Just type in the two words “women should” into the search engine, and Google’s auto-complete function will come up with a selection of startling suggestions: “Women should… know their place… not work… stay at home… not speak in church…” You get similar results from the US version of Google’s competitor, Yahoo.
DW asked Google Germany why this should be. “The suggestions are generated automatically based on many different factors, including the popularity of particular search terms in the Internet,” was the reply. …
So is Google being sexist when it spits out these kind of suggestions in response to the words “women should,” or to comparable searches like “girls should” or “women shouldn’t?” UN Women, the United Nations’ women’s rights organization, says it is. The organization has started a poster campaign in protest. It shows women whose mouths are hidden by a Google search bar showing these search results: sexist suggestions that leave them literally lost for words. …
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You are right, plus I was looking at the results, not that list of suggestions.
People should try other versions, even “men should” came up pretty weird.
“conservatives should” was worse.
For “Palin should”, first was “Palin should die” number 9 was “Sarah Palin should die”.
“They” say that it is split 50/50 on people that hate Flo, and people that adore her. To me, Flo is mad hot. Then again, my pathetic goal is to meet and marry a future “crazy old cat lady down the street”.
Get back in tha kitchen woman.
LOL, at least you know what you want.
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