Google And Their Ridiculous Search Suggestions

As I was writing the previous post, I was looking for a picture of an Israeli family or children, so I decided to use that internet searchy thingy that’s not AltaVista.

“Israeli children playing” returns “Palestinian, Writing On Bombs, Palestinian Children School, Brave Palestinian, Palestinian Children Suffering”

Yes, Google Those are the exact associations I make when I watch my children play.

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The pictures aren’t much better.

A scroll through the first 100 photos shows many “kids with artillery” pics that are circulated in the anti-Israel circles. And I’ve already talked about why those are BS.

How to fix it. More people need to search for images associated with Israel and choose happier results. We the public need to calibrate Google’s algorithms a bit.

3 thoughts on “Google And Their Ridiculous Search Suggestions”

  1. Kathy Prendergast

    I have also just about had it with Google. But if you have to use it, maybe try just a search for “Jewish children“ to avoid all the Pallywood propaganda. Surely that would get you some pictures of Israeli kids. Many of those photos of so-called `Palestinian children suffering` of course are photoshopped fakes, misleadingly staged, or not even Palestinian kids at all. I would also suggest Flickr.com, a photo site for both pros and amateurs, although of course you should ask photographers there for permission to use their images, even if they make them downloadable (some don`t, esp. pro photographers). There are many excellent Israeli photographers who post their work there.

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