[doorbumper]

If Google's human inputs have racial bias that is certainly something that should be fixed. DuckDuckGo has safe search on by default.

> That a query for an innocent term such as 'black girls' even with 'safe search off' should not result in a bunch of porn.

I don't know what results the search term 'black girls' should return. If you just search for it, it doesn't return any porn for me. If you're seeing porn, your search results make reflect your search history since Google will customize your results based on your search history. Interesting.

That being said, it should return whatever people are searching for. We must be careful not to cross the line from fixing mistakes to politically correct moral censorship.

[jacquesm]

On Google I get the same results as the writer of the article for 'black girls', on Bing I get a bunch of porn. So it looks as if Google has permanently adjusted the results for this particular query.

[politician]

I think it's possible we're actually in violent agreement due, in part, to our different result set from Google. Even "incognito mode" doesn't return for me the set of salacious results reported by the author.

[jacquesm]

She clearly states this is what happened in 2009.

[politician]

You're right! The screenshot of the naughty results was taken in 2011, and the revised results in 2016.