Google Explains Offensive Michelle Obama Image Results Via Ad
From SFGate.com:
Confronted with the return of an offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama to the top of its image search engine, Google is now using some of its own ad space to offer an explanation on how its results are determined.
Search Engine Land reported that Google first dealt with the image last week, when the company removed it saying that the Web site hosting the picture was a conduit for malware. But the image is back and ranking high, this time hosted in a different Web site. The fact that it hasn’t been taken down suggests that this time the Web site is not in violation of Google’s removal policies.
Stuck again with an unpleasant situation, the Mountain View-company wants to wash its hands and, to do so, it is using a valuable piece of its online real estate space to tell users that “sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree.”
“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,” the company wrote.
“[...] Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results simply because its content is unpopular or because we receive complaints concerning it.”
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Michelle Obama is the sexyest 1st ladi of all TIMEZ!
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Are you kidding?? Has no one, Black or White, noticed the grace, class and REALNESS of our new First Lady? It doesn’t seem so. This is a mother, wife, college graduate and a history making woman. She is the devoted wife to the most powerful BLACK man in the world!!!! This has really got to stop! Google needs to recognize…..ignorance is ignorance plain and simple. How do we teach our kids right from wrong and equality when one of the most famous internet sites pulls crap like this? I used to go to Google for a lot of information and that is where I would send my kids for the info that they need. I can tell you…that won’t happen anymore. The sooner that all of these racist idiots realize that Barak Obama is in office and accept that fact we can get on with concentrating with more IMPORTANT issues. Change is coming so GET OVER IT!!!
Google allows alot of offensive stuff, its just the nature of the beast. If they took this picture off it would introduce a whole realm of new regulations that could cause some legal uproar, so its best to just not worry about it.
I despise this pic as must as anyone else, but it has nothing to do with the fact that Google is run by “racist white people.”
And whoever created this picture needs to be curb stomped.
More than likely, google is ran by Whites, that’s why they allow such garbage and…… they just don’t give a damn! We as a black people need to get together and stop dealing with any company, business, person, organization or etc….that allows, agree or support anything or anyone that has a lack of respect towards the president or his family. I’ve never seen or heard of none of the previous presidents of the (so call) USA be clowned so much as the Obama’s. It has gotten so bad that even the security for our president is a laughing stock. It’s a shame, and i hate to say it, but i just hope the Obama’s be OK through all this HATE!
I’m a little upset with that Ape looking pic of Michelle. But what bother’s me most of all is that there are ape or monkey looking people in all races, especially among whites. And i’m tired of it…give me a break and come up with something more better than that. Who ever posted that pic is a A**hole, 4real! GET A LIFE!!!!
The one who takes the first step always has it the hardest. Imagine what it was like being the first black person to go into a pollbooth and vote with an angry lynch mob standing outside the damn booth with guns and sheets on and s**t???
By hanging in there and taking this hellified HEAT, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are making it easier for the next black folks and the next black folks will make it easier for the next ones and so on… That’s why today’s black celebs owe a serious debt of gratitude to the early black actors and actresses who had to put up with MUCH s**t from “The Man” while trying to eek out a living as an actor in a predominantly racist country/profession. Instead of being angry at or ashamed of people like Steppin’ Fetchit, Mantan Mooreland, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Butterfly McQueen for being “coons” or whatever, black folks need to realize that they were doing THE BEST that they could do with the hand they had to play and if it wasn’t for black folks like them, wouldn’t be no Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Jamie Foxx. Back in the day, just getting a black face on THE DAMN SCREEN was a victory for black folks. Decades later, it’s STILL a struggle to get quality black entertainment that isn’t marginalized or stereotyped in some way, but that doesn’t mean to give up. That just means that the fight is ongoing and NEVER GIVE UP, because you can bet your ass that the powers that be won’t stop trying to put that foot on our necks.
Future generations will look back at this age and say, “DAMN, they must’ve had it rough, being the first generation of black people to experience a black President and First Lady!”. Let the record stand that it was tough, but we DIDN’T GIVE UP. WE KEPT ON FIGHTING!!!
After all of the degradation,death threats and pure racism coming from white people,I don’t know how the obama family has’nt began to hate whites in america.they are creatures of untold debauchery,murder,torture and every inhuman act possible.this has to stop.the republican party has to call it off and reel in their racist soldiers.
Why is google and so many other sites allowing the racist trype to be shown on their pages,degrading mrs.obama a kind children loving and carry person?she has’nt done or said anything wrong to anybody.these sites know that these things are motivated by racist whites?maybe that’s why its allowed.mrs. Obama has tried to be kind and considerate to everyone.
u got some really immature people in the u.s……..which is a shame
President Obama, did right by running for office……All those that disrespectthe OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES should face consequences. Very severe consequences….Punshiable by law……nobody talked about arrogant george bush. But when we get a REAL PRESIDENT igonorant people want to say something………Personally the 44th president is the best president thus far
Beautiful black woman and a icon for all to love.
Barack shouldnt give a phucc about people self hating, hating him or hating blacks as long as he completes the re-establishment of a properly run economy by the end of his first term.
People are caught up on bullshyt when the focus is to keep this country from collapsing… And if people feel Obama is out to do this country in, then all poloticians are in the same frame of mind.
I now wish President Obama had taken Michelle’s advice to NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT. This country, Whites, Blacks and all of the rest, is not ready for an African American biracial Black president or any president of Black descent. I’ve read the comments and personal insults on BlackPlanet.com, NewsOne, online mainstream media outlets as well as the news networks and am convinced ALL of this backlash, nastiness and disrespect is racism and self-hatred. Hopefully, he will not run for a second term. More importantly, I believe people of color who have influence and voice in the political arena and media world have done him a disservice as well as these alleged Democratic media types on MSNBC and CNN.
Black women are always insulted about their looks and treated like lowly mammals, not humans, esp. our now First Lady Michelle Obama for the world to see.
These people have forgotten Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States of America. Nothing was given to him; he earned it.