Pretty solid and provable statements in the video.
For those too lazy or unable to watch the video now, a basic summary of what they did:
* Searched for "hilary clinton cri" and "hilary clinton ind" ("cri" for "crime" and "ind" for "indictment"). Autocomplete did not show "crime" and "indictment" in the autocomplete, but Bing and Yahoo did.
* Compared the search results for "crime" and "indictment" with the autocomplete results they got using Google's graph tool, which proved that "crime" and "indictment" are by an order of magnitude more searched than what autocomplete returned.
* Tried searching for "bernie sanders soc" and "donald trump rac" ("soc" for "socialist", and "rac" for "racist"). Google, Bing and Yahoo all showed "socialist" and "racist" in the autocomplete function.
* Made some pretty well known connections between Eric Schmidt and Hilary's campaign to prove their point.
* Talked about Dr. Robert Epstein's experiments on the impact of search results to the election.
EDIT: Google basically admitted that they do not show offensive queries in the autocomplete by sending an email to the Washington Post, in which they stated:
"Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works. Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name. More generally, our autocomplete predictions are produced based on a number of factors including the popularity of search terms."
So, it is possible that "crime" and "indictment" are considered as "offensive" words according to Google, but "racist" and "socialist" are not.
detaro|9 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871248
r3bl|9 years ago
For those too lazy or unable to watch the video now, a basic summary of what they did:
* Searched for "hilary clinton cri" and "hilary clinton ind" ("cri" for "crime" and "ind" for "indictment"). Autocomplete did not show "crime" and "indictment" in the autocomplete, but Bing and Yahoo did.
* Compared the search results for "crime" and "indictment" with the autocomplete results they got using Google's graph tool, which proved that "crime" and "indictment" are by an order of magnitude more searched than what autocomplete returned.
* Tried searching for "bernie sanders soc" and "donald trump rac" ("soc" for "socialist", and "rac" for "racist"). Google, Bing and Yahoo all showed "socialist" and "racist" in the autocomplete function.
* Made some pretty well known connections between Eric Schmidt and Hilary's campaign to prove their point.
* Talked about Dr. Robert Epstein's experiments on the impact of search results to the election.
EDIT: Google basically admitted that they do not show offensive queries in the autocomplete by sending an email to the Washington Post, in which they stated:
"Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works. Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name. More generally, our autocomplete predictions are produced based on a number of factors including the popularity of search terms."
So, it is possible that "crime" and "indictment" are considered as "offensive" words according to Google, but "racist" and "socialist" are not.