The Theology of Google
My friend Josh oversees a large corporation’s website and has been working on a keyword search suggestion engine. In the process, he came across Google’s suggestions for a few searches. These are manually being managed by someone at Google. Check out the results below and then try it for yourself. Anybody else bothered by this?
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This is the personal blog of Jeremy Jernigan. Husband, father, teaching pastor, and student of truth.
This is the personal blog of Jeremy Jernigan. Husband, father, teaching pastor, and student of truth.
before we get all tied up in knots lets all read this:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/google-islam-censorship/
Then lets freak out!! Acckk! Scary!! Google is a conspiracy promoting big bad islam.
Derek, thanks for posting that link for us. But it raises two questions:
1) Do you really believe that this is a bug that Google can’t fix? Call me skeptical, but I don’t buy that.
2) Regardless of your answer to #1, that doesn’t remotely change the fact that the results for Christianity are a bit skewed (to say the least). I’m hoping they wouldn’t blame that on a bug as well.
The reality is that this is being managed by someone who obviously has strong opinions when it comes to religion. And I don’t think it is acceptable for a company like Google to manage their suggestions like this.
However, if you type in “muslim is” you get similar suggestions. Apparently, the overseer at google needs a grammar lesson…
And, yes, it is quite unnerving.