> Do a search for `American inventors`, and see for yourself. Google will show you that the overwhelming majority of American inventors throughout history have been African-American.
I'm not sure that is the best example. For one, this only applies to image results, regular search seem normal. For another, Bing (and the search engines that use Bing) does the same thing.
Given that, I think that there may be some sort of guerilla SEO campaign to distort these results. That campaign could be leftists trying to change perceptions of race or it could be rightists trying to change perceptions of Google/search.
I think it's purely that most kids writing school reports are more likely to be asked to write about "African-American inventors" than "America inventors" or "Chinese inventors" or any particular country, and SEO-optimized blogspam has adapted to that. I don't think it's political.
Bing Search, which has an independent web index from Google/Bing, has the same issue. It's interesting how search results can be biased without any malevolence or even any intervention by search engines.
I'm not sure that is the best example. For one, this only applies to image results, regular search seem normal. For another, Bing (and the search engines that use Bing) does the same thing.
Given that, I think that there may be some sort of guerilla SEO campaign to distort these results. That campaign could be leftists trying to change perceptions of race or it could be rightists trying to change perceptions of Google/search.