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Racial Profiling with Google
Sat, 26 June, 2010
One of the most popular searches on Google this week was searching for “white people stole my car” to see if the internet rumor was true that Google would in fact suggest that you really meant “black people stole my car”.
So, obviously the first thing I did was give it a go, and as you can imagine, Google did not in fact suggest any other race, but did return 454,000 results for the search term as I entered it.
Here is the screen capture that has caused the rumors:
Check out Google insights to follow the trend. You will see that it started out in the US and has now picked up popularity in Canada and the UK as well. It also appears that is just started late last week, as August 19 appears to be the start of the increasingly popular search term.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=white%20people%20stole%20my%20car&date=today%201-m&cmpt=q
My guess is that the screen grab above is a hoax based on someone misspelling “black” to get the suggestion, and then retyping “white” in the search term.
How about some real racial profiling? Check out this story about keeping an eye out for campers who leave tortilla wrappers, drink tecate beer and listen to mexican music. Why? Well, the US Forest Service says these campers could be armed Marijuana growers…