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In reply to the discussion: Trump's economic adviser: 'We're taking a look' at whether Google searches should be regulated [View all]billh58
(6,655 posts)65. Protestors Are Gaming Google Images So When You Search 'Idiot,' President Trump Appears
First President Trump topped protests across London as a giant baby blimp. Now, hes topping Google Images.
Protestors, activists and Internet users are seeking to influence Googles algorithm so that when the term idiot is searched for, images of Trump pop up on Google. According to the Guardian, this began when British protestors used the Green Day hit American Idiot as the anthem for their demonstrations during Trumps recent visit to the U.K. But now more users are taking advantage of that online association by up-voting a picture of Trump and the word idiot on Reddit.
As of Wednesday night, nine of the first ten results on Google Images searches for idiot were of or related to President Trump.
This is not the first time Google algorithms have been manipulated. In 2004, searching Jew returned a hook-nosed caricature. In 2009, searching Michelle Obama returned users a photo of the first lady retouched with ape-like traits. And before the last U.S. election, googling rapist would likely return at least five images of Bill Clinton in the top 10, the Guardian reports.
http://time.com/5342602/donald-trump-idiot-google/
Protestors, activists and Internet users are seeking to influence Googles algorithm so that when the term idiot is searched for, images of Trump pop up on Google. According to the Guardian, this began when British protestors used the Green Day hit American Idiot as the anthem for their demonstrations during Trumps recent visit to the U.K. But now more users are taking advantage of that online association by up-voting a picture of Trump and the word idiot on Reddit.
As of Wednesday night, nine of the first ten results on Google Images searches for idiot were of or related to President Trump.
This is not the first time Google algorithms have been manipulated. In 2004, searching Jew returned a hook-nosed caricature. In 2009, searching Michelle Obama returned users a photo of the first lady retouched with ape-like traits. And before the last U.S. election, googling rapist would likely return at least five images of Bill Clinton in the top 10, the Guardian reports.
http://time.com/5342602/donald-trump-idiot-google/
Or, the New Jersy billboard: http://nj1015.com/dont-like-trump-idiot-billboard-dont-look/
"Idiot" has a nice ring to it when speaking about our Dear Leader...
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Trump's economic adviser: 'We're taking a look' at whether Google searches should be regulated [View all]
DonViejo
Aug 2018
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Trump was alerted to this problem by his media advisers Diamond and Silk during their interview
Arkansas Granny
Aug 2018
#2
D & S are full of themselves and so is the bloated Mango Mussolini. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2018
#23
I wondered about that too. I don't watch his show, but I thought his hair was much lighter in color
Arkansas Granny
Aug 2018
#55
Fascism 101: limit access to anything that might be critical of the dictatorship.
Doodley
Aug 2018
#3
What? Regulations? After dismantling the EPA regulations? Controlling the
Crutchez_CuiBono
Aug 2018
#4
Really, then perhaps we should think about regulating @FoxNews which is being run
Historic NY
Aug 2018
#6
Truly. The algorithms are agnostic & apolitical. Very neutral. No need for regulation. Fight it. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2018
#22
Kudlow pretends to flush his entire professional reputation down the toilet
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2018
#14
Kudlow is worthless, always has been...he's been a loudmouth for what it seems ...
SWBTATTReg
Aug 2018
#59
If tRump not careful he'll get Santorum'ed into a "frothy mixture". Esp if he pushes more on this.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2018
#24
Chinese Politburo loves it. Chinese people, not so much, but they can't say so. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2018
#35
So someone has analyzed all of the 869,000,000 results when searching for Trump News
mr_lebowski
Aug 2018
#37
Programmatically, actually you probably could come up with a decent estimate on 890M records in 5m
mr_lebowski
Aug 2018
#48
I recommend the POS stop googling his name if he doesn't want the truth about himself.
Solly Mack
Aug 2018
#38
in other news: the orange asshole is passing out 1984 as an instructional manual. nt
Javaman
Aug 2018
#40