How many rows down do I have to go before I see ‘lots’ of ordinary black people wearing MAGA hats?
I can’t argue with you about whether there are ‘lots’ of ordinary black people there wearing MAGA hats at that link, because Google Images will keep showing more images as long as I keep scrolling down. There’s no way to disprove your contention, because there’s always more rows.
So tell me, what’s ‘lots’ of blacks wearing MAGA hats, and how many rows down do I have to go before I see that many?
Rasmussen Poll: Trump at 36% approval among African Americans
Even if we cut that in half because it’s Rasmussen that’s still about 7 million pro Trump black Americans. Let’s assume 1% of them have MAGA hats. That’s 70 thousand. Is that enough?
There is something strange going on with Google, then. Because when I click the same link, I can count seven black people in MAGA hats, one of which is Kanye, just in the first screen. I also see Jack Black, and a couple of pictures of the covington kid. That’s on an ipad, before I even scroll.
For example, this is the image I see in the top left of the screen:
If you aren’t seeing that, then Google is lying when it says it doesn’t manipulate search results for individual users. We should all be seeing the same thing. If you don’t, try going to duck duck go and search for ‘black people wearing Maga Hats’. I just did, and I get a screenful of nothing but…wait for it…black people wearing MAGA hats.
Pat Cipollone, Individual 1’s White House attorney, is a graduate of Covington Catholic High School.
He is a former adviser to the president on the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Yep, that is also why a Google Vomit is such a shitty way to debate.
Well, for Trump, at about ~$20 a hat, that’s $1,400,000. It’s a good start I suppose. You can pay off hookers with that kind of money.
What are you talking about? When has Google ever said that? I’ve always heard, and experienced, the opposite:
That’s a shocking poll, if true. I thought Trump’s support among blacks was more like 11-15%. Also, your link is for a poll published last August, and Trump’s overall approval has come down since then.
But even if the support is half of what the poll claims, it should be very worrying to Democrats. Perhaps smearing everyone not on their side as a racist isn’t working so well.
My understanding was that Google’s algorithm was not personalized in that way for searches like this. I would expect them to tailor commercial results and ads, but not straight up factual searches.
But it’s a big problem if one person can do a search for maga hats and see only white people, while another person’s search shows mostly black people. It makes you wonder how much more of our reality is being skewed through the Google lens.
Believe it or not Sam, most if not all Democrats don’t pick sides. We want all to win.
You expect wrong: they tailor searches based on what they think you’re looking for. Whether it’s a big problem is of course debatable, but Google has worked that way for a decade.
It’s definitely a big problem for you to not realize how Google works, to think your search results reflect an unvarnished truth rather than an algorithm’s attempt at pleasing you.
Da hell are you talking about? Is that one of those urban legends, like rainbow parties or something?
Oof. Tryhard douchebro here sure is mad.
It’s true, but it’s also the goat.se of news stories. Careful what you ask for here.
How does Trump get 36% approval among blacks when only 8% of black voters voted for him?
Not trying to derail the thread, just perplexed.
I think I know what you’re talking about, (a certain shitty band took their name from it?) but I still suspect it’s an urban legend. Or at least, it’s only an isolated incident.
Not the common phenomenon our friend Huey here is making it out to be. People who fall for that shit are the type who thing gang members hide under parked cars waiting to slash peoples’ ankles. (That was a popular one when I was in high school)
…google isn’t “manipulating” the search results. The algorithm is. Search results are never the same between individuals for a whole host of reasons. I’m probably never going to see exactly the same thing you see: especially as I live on the other side of the world. Don’t blame google because you didn’t know a very basic fact about how it works.
And FYI: with Duck Duck Go my search results were nearly identical to the google search with the addition of Dennis Rodman and “Michael the Black Man”, the conspiracy theorist and former cultist.
You’ve only just started to wonder this? Holy fucking shit. It isn’t just google. Its every fucking thing. Twitter. Facebook. Brexit. The last US elections. The balance finely tipped by algorithms that were manipulated just enough to have devastating results. Everything is skewed through a lens. We’ve all been compartmentalised into our own bubbles, being fed a steady steam of personally curated information that conforms to our own personal worldview.
This is what Trump’s twitter feed looks like. It doesn’t look anything like my feed at all.
Please share. I’m interested.
Only on the SDMB could someone post this without someone retorting, “OK gramps”
I bet Reddit would have a whole train of it in a comment.
I googled ‘google tailoring results to individual users’
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=google+tailoring+results+to+individula+users
In my screen, it says Google does indeed tailor its results to individual users. Then again, that’s what I expected it to say. YMMV.
btw, I didn’t get a screen full of black people wearing MAGA hats on duck duck go either.
You asked–and unless the band is named Mark Berndt, I don’t think you know the story. Once you click, you can’t un-know it.
LOL at the Google side bar. What a dipshit.