Kikuyumoja just pointed out that BoingBoing has a short piece on Google being biased. It turns out that if you type in the words “African Ingenuity”, Google will ask you if you really meant “American Ingenuity”… Nice.
Try it (and let’s see how long before they fix this)
In other news, it’s cool to see AfriGadget as #2 on the search engine results. Remember, anyone can send in AfriGadget articles and I’ll post them.
[EDIT: Google is pretty fast. One day later and it seems that they have fixed this little problem]
January 24, 2007 at 9:46 pm
boo google! boo!
January 27, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Nice to know that they keep an eye on what is being written in the blogosphere.
February 5, 2007 at 9:50 am
And they even suggested the search for “African Ingenuity” to me through their new “Interesting Items for You” portlet. It is based on past searches. Unfortunately this is the first page that comes up..
January 9, 2008 at 12:41 am
Guys, google doesn’t arbitrarily decide what it suggests. If the algorithm figures out there’s a similarly worded, more popular result it will suggest that instead. Come on.