Why does offensive Racist image tops Google search results for Michelle Obama?”
The top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Google’s image search engine is a racist caricature that depicted her with the face of a chimpanzee, just below a link to a suggested Google search for the terms “Michelle Obama Monkey.” The same image of Obama, which is currently hosted on Google’s Blogger service, has appeared among the top image results on Google for at least two weeks, according to user complaints on Google’s help forum. The Obama caricature does not appear among the top image results for “Michelle Obama” on Microsoft’s rival Bing search engine. The image also does not appear among image results when users search for “Michelle Obama” on its main search engine, only on the results produced by the image search engine. “Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results, or images from our Google Images results, simply because the content is in very poor taste or be
IDG News Service – The top-ranked result for U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Google’s image search engine is a racist caricature that depicted her with the face of a chimpanzee, just below a link to a suggested Google search for the terms “Michelle Obama Monkey.” The same image of Obama, which is currently hosted on Google’s Blogger service, has appeared among the top image results on Google for at least two weeks, according to user complaints on Google’s help forum The Obama caricature does not appear among the top image results for “Michelle Obama” on Microsoft’s rival Bing search engine. The image also does not appear among image results when users search for “Michelle Obama” on its main search engine, only on the results produced by the image search engine. “Google views the integrity of our search results as an extremely important priority. Accordingly, we do not remove a page from our search results, or images from our Google Images results, simply because the content is in ver