One of my favorite posts from 11 years ago, Guy with a “Whites Only” sign in his conference room tells others not to discriminate, poked fun at Tim Cook for complaining that people he’d never met in Indiana and Arkansas were racist and might put up a “whites only” sign while simultaneously going to work every day in a white-only environment:
I was trying to find this to add to White people who live in all-white neighborhoods say that Scott Adams was racist and it turned out that Google had elected not to index this page:
(It’s in the Bing index, however, so the problem isn’t a technical one.)
I just stumbled upon that post yesterday or Wednesday. It is a very funny post.
I thought Google was “de-woked” in this current administration? Maybe old habits die hard.
Phil, we routinely decide what our users need to see. Just like any other good company does. As an example, if you type “grokipedia” into the google search bar today it will only bring up wikipedia links. We do this because we don’t want to subject our readers to the harm they will encounter on the grokipedia website.
Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, with a little Kafka thrown in for good measure.
> It’s in the Bing index, however, so the problem isn’t a technical one.
On your side maybe.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” — Robert Hanlon