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marble falls

(57,075 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:04 PM Jun 2014

What the hell is wrong with search engines?

I've used bing, google, duckduckgo, dogpile and they all do it.

Type in any variation of racist attacks on blacks, white on black violence and all that comes up is blog crap on racist black on white violence.

If one believes the search machines - there are NO racially motivated attacks on blacks, only whites.

What up with that?

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What the hell is wrong with search engines? (Original Post) marble falls Jun 2014 OP

White on black attacks philosslayer Jun 2014 #1

They get reported but they don't get searched. Its like the "Santorum" search joke but in reverse... marble falls Jun 2014 #2

Use inverted commas and minus signs intaglio Jun 2014 #3

And they're still about black on white violence, the Salon article takes you to RW blogs ..... marble falls Jun 2014 #5

Sorry, my error but did get some results this way intaglio Jun 2014 #10

It means that bigots are doing most of the searches, that's what it means Warpy Jun 2014 #4

That's exctly right. And the result is it dumbs us all down along with them. Only BS results on .... marble falls Jun 2014 #7

tried it, seems the OP's contention is in fact true. shocking eh? nt msongs Jun 2014 #6

It has to do partly with how many pages are linking to them. NYC Liberal Jun 2014 #8

Use "DoNotLink.com" then, to link to crank sites, without upping cranks' search rankings. alp227 Jun 2014 #9

Read this conwebwatch article by Terry Krepel to see how WND/such media have hyped alp227 Jun 2014 #11

philosslayer

(3,076 posts)

1. White on black attacks

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:07 PM

Jun 2014

Whether physical or economic, are an epidemic. Yet there are many people who would like to convince you otherwise. They rarely get reported.

marble falls

(57,075 posts)

2. They get reported but they don't get searched. Its like the "Santorum" search joke but in reverse...

Reply to philosslayer (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:12 PM

Jun 2014

a lot of white people must be extraordinarily afraid of being attacked by black people. So much so they bombard the search engines.

I know racially motivated attacks on blacks by whites happen a lot, I just can't search for articles on the usual search engines.

intaglio

(8,170 posts)

3. Use inverted commas and minus signs

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:14 PM

Jun 2014

"white on black" violence-"black on white"-"black on black"

Note, no spaces between the minus sign and the inverted commas

It produces this result for me

marble falls

(57,075 posts)

5. And they're still about black on white violence, the Salon article takes you to RW blogs .....

Reply to intaglio (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:33 PM

Jun 2014

check it out - no matter which you use "white on black" or "black on white" what you get is about "black on white" and "reverse racism".

intaglio

(8,170 posts)

10. Sorry, my error but did get some results this way

Reply to marble falls (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 01:54 AM

Jun 2014

using site searches
white on black violence site:www.salon.com
white on black violence site:www.alternet.org
"white on black" violence site:thinkprogress.org

Nothing on Talking Points Memo or Huffpo or al Jazeera
a few results for BBC news (bbc.co.uk) and Slate
Only one for the US Department of Justice
Nothing from FedStats

It really looks like this problem has hardly been examined and that seems like, well, institutional racism

Warpy

(111,245 posts)

4. It means that bigots are doing most of the searches, that's what it means

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:33 PM

Jun 2014

All search engines throw the most popular items to the top of the first page. Often it takes wading through several pages or pure drivel to get what you want. This is especially annoying when searching for medical items, sometimes there can be five pages of New Age donkey bollocks before the first legitimate medical item pops up.

It was actually easier pre Google on some items since you could parse it pretty specifically, eg. Saxony+Spinning wheel+1820-1920-fishing reel - blood sweat & tears...and so forth.