Is Google biased?
Google has been accused of bias from time to time against conservatives. (See here and here as well.)
I was looking for incidents in Iraq where terrorist actions led to the death or injury of children, for yesterday's post. I searched Google Images for "Iraq children casualties", and found something interesting.
There were 29 results. (None of them were photos I linked to yesterday.)
Of those, the sites that contained the various photos broke down this way:
Sites that said incident of injuries were the fault of the US: 8
Sites that were otherwise anti-US policy: 7
Other non-Iraq related sites: 7
Sites with general Iraq news: 6
Sites that said incident of injuries were the fault of the terrorists: 1
Yes, of those 29, only 1 photo was in a story talking about an incident where a suicide bomb or something caused injury to children. Compare that against 15 that were on sites actively opposed to US policy, or actually blaming the US, such as incidents where US bombs caused civilian injuries.
Is this indication of bias? I don't know how Google ended up finding these 29 images, but was interesting, nonetheless.
I was looking for incidents in Iraq where terrorist actions led to the death or injury of children, for yesterday's post. I searched Google Images for "Iraq children casualties", and found something interesting.
There were 29 results. (None of them were photos I linked to yesterday.)
Of those, the sites that contained the various photos broke down this way:
Sites that said incident of injuries were the fault of the US: 8
Sites that were otherwise anti-US policy: 7
Other non-Iraq related sites: 7
Sites with general Iraq news: 6
Sites that said incident of injuries were the fault of the terrorists: 1
Yes, of those 29, only 1 photo was in a story talking about an incident where a suicide bomb or something caused injury to children. Compare that against 15 that were on sites actively opposed to US policy, or actually blaming the US, such as incidents where US bombs caused civilian injuries.
Is this indication of bias? I don't know how Google ended up finding these 29 images, but was interesting, nonetheless.






5 Comments:
At Fri Aug 12, 11:06:00 AM, Vaard said…
enter "failure" into google and hit enter.....
At Fri Aug 12, 11:11:00 AM, Jeff said…
Yes, I've heard of this before. This particular one, though, may be explained as this article says.
At Fri Aug 12, 11:47:00 AM, jim said…
Asking if google is biased is like asking if the sun revolves around Neptune! Google is not biased in any way. Trust me!
At Thu Aug 18, 12:25:00 AM, johngrif said…
From Roger L. Simon
August 16, 2005
Google and the "Good Omen"
I took Google Ads off my site tonight. I took them off once before but this time it is permanent. Their system of automated word matching ended up with my running an ad for Ali al-Timimi's legal defense. You may recall Al-Timimi,according to the AP, an Islamic scholar who prosecutors said enjoyed "rock star" status among a group of young Muslim men in Virginia. [He} was convicted Tuesday of exhorting his followers in the days after Sept. 11 to join the Taliban and fight U.S. troops.
Perhaps Google doesn't care about such things in their pursuit of lucre or in their "multi-culturalism," but many Americans might be slightly concerned about the following: The evidence included a 2003 e-mail in which al-Timimi described the Columbia shuttle disaster as "a good omen" that "Western supremacy (especially that of America) that began 500 years ago is coming to an end, God willing."
Google can conduct its fund-raising for this religious sociopath on another site, not this one. Hereabouts: Google no more
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/
At Thu Aug 18, 09:36:00 AM, Jeff said…
Interesting. I see enough of these things around, that I do wonder. Being HQ'd in the Bay Area, I suppose it is not surprising that many people who work at Google would tilt left in their politics. But, if indeed they are, one wonders why they would want to use search technology to push certain views.
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