Google in hot water over "Michelle Obama" image search results

marcsignal

Google appear to be in trouble over This, but a spokesman says Google have no control over what a search engine turns up.

http://searchengineland.com/offensive-michelle-obama-image-returns-google-buys-ad-30381

from article

“Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.

Search engines are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Internet. A site’s ranking in Google’s search results relies heavily on computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page’s relevance to a given query.

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.”

I'd hate to be the person in Google left to deal with this one :pac:

MrStuffins

Lol

I love how one of the sponsored links is "Offensive Search Results"

"Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree. Read more."

Haha

brendansmith

Thats very good.

Lia_lia

Haha, good luck with that, Barack.

MrStuffins

http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/michelle-obama-teenager1.JPG

Now that IS offensive!

ElaElaElano

Lia_lia wrote: »

Haha, good luck with that, Barack.

Imagine Obama rolling up in the Chevvy in Moyross for a visit. I'd pay good money to see that.

OutlawPete

I just did the search there via the link (safe search off) and I can't see anything offensive. Have the sites with the images been taken down or something?

The_B_Man

no u need to have it on moderate results to show the insulting images!! weird!

Bandit12

Don't see the problem myself

She's looking well !

jayteecork

Post the iomage here I can't find it at all.

Saibh

jayteecork wrote: »

Post the iomage here I can't find it at all.

It's not pretty, have you had your breakfast yet?

jayteecork

Saibh wrote: »

It's not pretty, have you had your breakfast yet?

Yes.

Pm me the link please.

OutlawPete

Saibh wrote: »

It's not pretty, have you had your breakfast yet?

It has racist undertones. Linking to it from here would be close to endorsing it.

Just click on the link in the OP's post and switch to 'Moderate' Search .. it's the first photo.

Danbo!

I wouldn't mind being in hot water giving Google a Michelle obama.

No wait, I've clearly messed that up.

jayteecork

Oh I see.

An ape.

Manic Moran

You had the same problems of 'Google-Bombing' when Bush was in office.

Computers were set to run programs which repeatedly hit certain links, to rank them higher in Google's system. Of course, these links were not complimentary to the subject.

NTM

Wazdakka

Wow..
Talk about land of the free..

It's an embarrassing picture of somebody who lives in the public eye posted on the internet...
Stop the Fúcking presses!!

Abuse of power and infringement of free information tbh.

Lux23

Its a horrible photo, actually made me jump out of my skin a bit when I first saw it but they can't remove it.

AnonoBoy

Ah yes I see what the racists have done there.

Knuckle Dragging Troglodytes 1 - Michelle Obama 0

(Aggregate Score: KDT 1 - M. Obama 9,999)

shqipshume

Who cares,become in public view expect ridicule, bring back spitting images

mink_man

funny that....

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

Who cares,become in public view expect ridicule, bring back spitting images

It was called Spitting Image, not Spitting Images.

Also Spitting Image didn't run racist caricatures of prominent figures.

But then again this is Ireland we're in so I suppose the "Ha! Ha! Black people are monkeys" attitude is tolerated here is it? F*cking moronic assh*les that inhabit this country make me want to puke up a lung sometimes.

That sort of ignorant sh*te is always followed by "Sure I'm only having a laugh! Lighten up" :rolleyes: Racist idiots.

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

It was called Spitting Image, not Spitting Images.

Also Spitting Image didn't run racist caricatures of prominent figures.

Oh sue me for the s :D
Same thing Insulting images

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

Oh sue me for the s :D
Same thing Insulting images

Insulting and Racist aren't the same thing.

Maybe you should go and purchase a dictionary. You might have heard of them. They're big books with lots of words in bold followed by more words that teach you what the words in bold mean.

There's a little project for you.... go find yourself a dictionary. Good lad.

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Insulting and Racist aren't the same thing.

Maybe you should go and purchase a dictionary. You might have heard of them. They're big books with lots of words in bold followed by more words that teach you what the words in bold mean.

There's a little project for you.... go find yourself a dictionary. Good lad.

Why do you care what they do about her :rolleyes: Like she is anything to you.
Woman thanks
Insulting and racism same thing to me both are equally as bad as other but who cares.Stop their whinging and get on with life.:D

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

Insulting and racism same thing to me both are equally as bad as other.

Racism and an insulting comment are the same thing to you?

Really?

So if my black girlfriend was called a 'f*cking n*gger' on the street and I was called a 'baldy f*cker' you would think those two insults were exactly the same and there's no difference between them?

Really? That's what you'd honestly think?

This sort of tolerance for casual racism is the sort of sh*te I'm going on about. You don't see a difference therefore you'd happily engage in racism and say 'stop your whinging and get on with life' if someone complains. But throw in a smiley face cause that makes it ok?

That's pathetic. It really is.

Lux23

shqipshume wrote: »

Why do you care what they do about her :rolleyes: Like she is anything to you.
Woman thanks
Insulting and racism same thing to me both are equally as bad as other but who cares.Stop their whinging and get on with life.:D

Its no way the same thing for a million different reasons. And that image is disgusting and I don't see how Michelle Obama could be classed as whining about it. That image is an example of the pure hatred some people have for Africans, do you think someone just did it because she was in the public eye. They did it because she is in the public eye and black.

D.Q

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Insulting and Racist aren't the same thing.

Maybe you should go and purchase a dictionary. You might have heard of them. They're big books with lots of words in bold followed by more words that teach you what the words in bold mean.

There's a little project for you.... go find yourself a dictionary. Good lad.

jaysus...bad day?

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Racism and an insulting comment are the same thing to you?

Really?

So if my black girlfriend was called a 'f*cking n*gger' on the street and I was called a 'baldy f*cker' you would think those two insults were exactly the same and there's no difference between them?

Really? That's what you'd honestly think?

This sort of tolerance for casual racism is the sort of sh*te I'm going on about. You don't see a difference therefore you'd happily engage in racism and say 'stop your whinging and get on with life' if someone complains. But throw in a smiley face cause that makes it ok?

That's pathetic. It really is.

Oh please any form of insult is the same,its insulting a person just because they didn't add in you pale faced balding whatever still same :rolleyes:

Throw that at someone who wasn't best friends with a black girl all her life and didn't defend her from comments such a black slut by Irish guys before political correctness came about :rolleyes:,

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

Oh please any form of insult is the same,its insulting a person just because they didn't add in you pale faced balding whatever still same :rolleyes:

Throw that at someone who wasn't best friends with a black girl all her life and didn't defend her from comments such a black slut by Irish guys before political correctness came about :rolleyes:,

I'm sure she'd love to hear you found that picture of Michelle Obama so funny. Go tell her and see if she's agrees with you.

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I'm sure she'd love to hear you found that picture of Michelle Obama so funny. Go tell her and see if she's agrees with you.

She would and she does,she like alot of the others laugh them off,because why should they be sitting contemplating and worrying about the remarks of idiots.
I never said i found it funny(Where did you see that statement) i just said who cares let them say what they want and do what they want,and ignore it and carry on.

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

She would and she does,she like alot of the others laugh them off,because why should they be sitting contemplating and worrying about the remarks of idiots.
I never said i found it funny(Where did you see that statement) i just said who cares let them say what they want and do what they want,and ignore it and carry on.

I won't ignore racism and let people carry on with it if I can do something about it. Sorry. Not going to happen.

I realise that you can't do something about everything or even half the things wrong that you see but I won't abide racist morons, especially the casually bigotry that is becoming more and more prevalent in Ireland.

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I won't ignore racism and let people carry on with it. Sorry. Not going to happen.

Then you shouldn't ignore insulting comments against people in life either
Da te de da theme music

It only from what i have seen comes out when people are annoyed(They are not judging by skin colour even if they say Black whatever(Even if i don't agree with it) People will get angry when not respected back.And even stil will not feel animosity towards all Black people.The small few that are truly racist in Ireland is at a minimum compared to eastern European countries and continents.
I heard a black guy shout at a man on street,you racist white trash,because he asked him to move his car politely from the path outside his house.And another black guy nearly running over a 6 year old girl as he reversed on a path outside a school.And when the mother approached him he spat in her face you white slut.

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

Then you shouldnt ignore insulting comments against people in life either
Da te de da theme music

Again, there's a huge difference between racism and general insults. Racism goes beyond the individual and has wider effects.

pickarooney

Strange, one of the most popular images doing the rounds over the last few years was a montage of George W Bush being compard directly to a monkey but that was never flagged as racist or anything more than having a laugh. Why should the incumbent president and his First Lady not have the right to the same treatment? (granted, this does assume that the photo captures the subject in a humorous pose comparable to that of a simian, which this particular image clearly fails to do).

It's like referring to a bouncer as an ape because of his physique and implied lesser intelligence - fine unless he's black, at which point the original point is obscured because of a ridiculous perceived notion that his skin colour alone makes him an ape. He should be allowed be called an ape like anyone else.

OutlawPete

Lux23 wrote: »

Its a horrible photo, actually made me jump out of my skin a bit when I first saw it but they can't remove it.

They can't remove the photo - that is true. However, they can drop the website from Google like a hot potato if they wished.

I listed my website in a business 'link directory' last year and as soon as it was next crawled by Google, my website became invisible. Nowhere, not just a worse ranking - but actually totally unfindable.

They have complete control over which websites are crawled and which aren't. Can't understand Google not doing to this site, what they did to mine.

AnonoBoy

pickarooney wrote: »

It's like referring to a bouncer as an ape because of his physique and implied lesser intelligence - fine unless he's black, at which point the original point is obscured because of a ridiculous perceived notion that his skin colour alone makes him an ape. He should be allowed be called an ape like anyone else.

If he's comparable to an ape and it's not being used in a racist context then that's fine.

However if anyone can point out how Michelle Obama looks like an ape they win a bright shiny penny.

The Saint

pickarooney wrote: »

Strange, one of the most popular images doing the rounds over the last few years was a montage of George W Bush being compard directly to a monkey but that was never flagged as racist or anything more than having a laugh. Why should the incumbent president and his First Lady not have the right to the same treatment? (granted, this does assume that the photo captures the subject in a humorous pose comparable to that of a simian, which this particular image clearly fails to do).

It's like referring to a bouncer as an ape because of his physique and implied lesser intelligence - fine unless he's black, at which point the original point is obscured because of a ridiculous perceived notion that his skin colour alone makes him an ape. He should be allowed be called an ape like anyone else.

There are historical racist connotations of black people as apes. Think of John Barnes having bananas thrown at him while playing. Totally different IMO.

BTW, Michelle Obama, I would.

omahaid

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If he's comparable to an ape and it's not being used in a racist context then that's fine.

However if anyone can point out how Michelle Obama looks like an ape they win a bright shiny penny.

You do realise the by saying that George Bush can be compared to a monkey but Michelle Obama cannot makes you the racist?

AnonoBoy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

However if anyone can point out how Michelle Obama looks like an ape they win a bright shiny penny.

I may be wrong but I think it's got to do with skin colour, where's my penny?

imstrongerthanu

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/282868/97167.jpg

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/282868/97168.jpg

Both look like monkeys it's hilarious.Don't see the big deal why they got google to remove it.But then again he i suppose he can remove it he is a powerful man.

Sir Gallagher

shqipshume wrote: »

Then you shouldn't ignore insulting comments against people in life either
Da te de da theme music

It only from what i have seen comes out when people are annoyed(They are not judging by skin colour even if they say Black whatever(Even if i don't agree with it) People will get angry when not respected back.And even stil will not feel animosity towards all Black people.The small few that are truly racist in Ireland is at a minimum compared to eastern European countries and continents.
I heard a black guy shout at a man on street,you racist white trash,because he asked him to move his car politely from the path outside his house.And another black guy nearly running over a 6 year old girl as he reversed on a path outside a school.And when the mother approached him he spat in her face you white slut.

What has this got to do with anyhing, such a lame arguement, "oh black people can be racist too". When people use that arguement it kind of implies that person is trying to justify their own prejudices.

You do realise the by saying that George Bush can be compared to a monkey but Michelle Obama cannot makes you the racist?

Hands down the stupidest thing i've read all day.

shqipshume

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

What has this got to do with anyhing, such a lame arguement, "oh black people can be racist too". When people use that arguement it kind of implies that person is trying to justify their own prejudices.



Hands down the stupidest thing i've read all day.

Meaning when people are attacked with such comments making a comment back towards said person with you black whatever a comment made under anger towards that one person.And not to a whole race

My prejudice is towards any black white Asian whatever green alien who is rude.If i said about the girl who hit me in face white trash,that is towards her,if i say to black person comment on said indiviuals skin with insult is towards that one person due to anger,That is not racist that is angry comment.
Same as kid i know who a black girl called him white trash,And he responded in anger black b****.He got expelled she however still is in school:rolleyes:

DamienH

pickarooney wrote: »

Strange, one of the most popular images doing the rounds over the last few years was a montage of George W Bush being compard directly to a monkey but that was never flagged as racist or anything more than having a laugh. Why should the incumbent president and his First Lady not have the right to the same treatment? (granted, this does assume that the photo captures the subject in a humorous pose comparable to that of a simian, which this particular image clearly fails to do).

It's like referring to a bouncer as an ape because of his physique and implied lesser intelligence - fine unless he's black, at which point the original point is obscured because of a ridiculous perceived notion that his skin colour alone makes him an ape. He should be allowed be called an ape like anyone else.

Spot on.

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

I may be wrong but I think it's got to do with skin colour, where's my penny?

So all black people look like apes then, yeah?

Also the penny is wedged tightly between my ass cheeks. It may not be shiny when you pull it out but you're welcome to it anyway!

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

So all black people look like apes then, yeah?

Also the penny is wedged tightly between my ass cheeks. It may not be shiny when you pull it out but you're welcome to it anyway!

I think all people look like apes Orangutan old man of the forest :P

Sir Gallagher

DamienH wrote: »

Strange, one of the most popular images doing the rounds over the last few years was a montage of George W Bush being compard directly to a monkey but that was never flagged as racist or anything more than having a laugh. Why should the incumbent president and his First Lady not have the right to the same treatment? (granted, this does assume that the photo captures the subject in a humorous pose comparable to that of a simian, which this particular image clearly fails to do).

Spot on.

Thats because it wasn't racist, it didn't have racial connotations, it was funny because George Bush looked liked a monkey and was thick, whereas the thing with Obama relates to a whole race of people based off an offensive stereotype.

AnonoBoy

imstrongerthanu wrote: »

Both look like monkeys it's hilarious.

You do realise that the Michelle Obama picture was doctored don't you?

AnonoBoy

shqipshume wrote: »

I think all people look like apes Orangutan old man of the forest :P

Look only one of you is getting the damn penny.

Now fight for my love! FIGHT FOR IT!!!!

shqipshume

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Look only one of you is getting the damn penny.

Now fight for my love! FIGHT FOR IT!!!!

ah but i win because i said all people do