[Closed] how has this not been the topic of the day?

Becasue all STW readers are above that sort of thing.
It's so obviously a hate-fuelled fake that there's no point in talking about it.

i am honestly shocked by that.

Agreed - that is pretty appalling! And we should stop talking about it and drawing attention to it right now....

DOH!

there are racist tosspots in the world ? 😯

what picture ?

there are racist tosspots in the world ?

Yeah but come on, the first photo on there search system!! michelle obama pretty fit if you ask me.

oh and poss not safe for work.

Check out google as I'm not posting the pic, its right ****in nasty

Unfortunately, your post (and articles like the BBC one) only help to bump the image to the tops of the google search result. Although I know that wasn't your intention.

It's just created a news stroy out of something some nob did on photoshop and posted on the web.

[slight troll]
Is it a lot worse than the George Bush chimp pics ??
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michelle obama pretty fit if you ask me

lowey - Member

what picture ?

Badly photoshopped pic depicting her as a monkey

Only comes up for me if you search for it in quotes "Michelle Obama".

I don't think anybody has learnt anything new about the world as a result of that article.

I don't get this one. How exactly is it in any way Googles fault?

I don't think anybody has learnt anything new about the world as a result of that article.

I'm suprised it hit the news really, there must be tens of thousands of offencive images like these floating around - I can't believe this is the first one out these of this nature.

scaredypants - Member
[slight troll]
Is it a lot worse than the George Bush chimp pics ??

This is a racist slur, not an unsubtle comment on ability in office. Speaking of which, Michelle Obama isn't the president.

How does google rank stuff? Why does that come in at number 1?

not an easily answered question

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-algorithm-pretty-charts-math-stuff

I think with images it has a lot to do with the hit rate.

The question is why are google refusing to take it down?

How does google rank stuff? Why does that come in at number 1?

By looking at the number of other pages that link to it (and what their rank is).

Basically if you post a picture of a dog and enough people link to it saying "Check out this cat" then eventually when someone searches for "cat" they'll see your dog.

The question is why are google refusing to take it down?

Do you honestly want the world's biggest search engine to start engaging in censorship? That's a [u]very[/u] slippery slope.

what grahams said

There are other search engines... Google is a commercial company that makes its money from the fact that we all use it. I don't even want to follow the link and am sure that anyone who was actually looking for a pic of her would gloss over that one. I personally think that if Google responded then it would just promopt more idiots to see if they could get the same level of attention, but if you personally feel that badly about Google's policy then vote with your fingers...

Hmm - with that in mind, can anyone suggest a better search engine - I like the thought of supporting underdogs?

My dad thinks it's terrible, but then my dad thinks Google run the internet. I think most people with a clue understand how it really works.

Doesn't appear in a search now, unless I search for "Michelle Obama Offensive", so someone's censoring it somewhere......

Eventually tracked down the picture. No worse than the caricatures that used to appear about Bush or Reagan.

If it was trying to work against Mrs Obama it has failed because I think most people dislike the pic.

I find our little naked t-shirt chappie on STW more offensive^^^ wonder if we can create a media web link storm over that if we tried?

😉

Eeeww, that really isn't very nice. Even I'm not going to save that in my "Funnies" folder, and according to reports I'm not a very PC kind of bloke.

It's not coming up in any search I do...read about it earlier and thought I'd have a look.

Dave Aber managed to find it.

Oh right, I see, that is pretty despicable for sure. But I'm with GrahamS on the censorship thing. Hopefully, this will be yesterday's news pretty soon and we'll have something else to wail about.

maybe it was too boring to be topic of the day?

GrahamS - Member

"Do you honestly want the world's biggest search engine to start engaging in censorship?"

They already do.

They already do.

Not really, no.

They occasionally retroactively remove questionable or illegal content from their search results when requested* or they re-classify it so it only appears when SafeSearch is off.

But they (thankfully) don't currently aim to proactively censor every web page they index before it gets to you. [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China ]At least not in the West.[/url]

If they did I wouldn't use them.

* not sure if that is what happened here or if the originating website was just issued with a Cease-and-Desist and pulled the image.

The censorship point is that after receiving complaints about it they refused to take it down, whilst they do take stuff down as GrahamS says, however they do it routinely not occasionally as he states.

The presumption therefore is that google perceive this image as acceptable, which clearly it isn't.

The image while offensive is not illegal thus they are right IMO not to censor it.

Storm in a tea cup

"Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide...
Human rights groups say Google's censorship efforts seem sincere, albeit motivated by bottom-line incentives."
-- [url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062500364_pf.html ]Google Fights Global Internet Censorship, Washington Post, June 2007[/url]

The do perform some censorship, especially in right-wing, extremely censorious countries that dislike free speech, such as China and America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google