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Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
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 Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
College Fix Staff •December 8, 2018
 

A professor from UCLA and the University of Southern California recently told an audience to “stop telling students to Google things” … because the search engine behemoth is racially biased.

Such is the topic of Safiya Noble’s new book, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.” Noble was the keynote speaker for the “Year of Data” conference held at Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities on Thursday.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/prof-dont-tell-students-to-google-something-because-the-search-engine-is-racist/
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Re: Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, Dec 09, 2018 08:51 am »
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Re: Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, Dec 09, 2018 10:17 am »
The real reason not to tell someone to google something is that "google" shouldn't be used as a verb. Not that something that isn't an actual person may be termed racist.

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Re: Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday, Dec 09, 2018 12:16 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on Sunday, Dec 09, 2018 10:17 am
The real reason not to tell someone to google something is that "google" shouldn't be used as a verb. Not that something that isn't an actual person may be termed racist.

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Unfortunately, it has become a verb.  Just as “platform” has become a verb, at least for the LIRR. 
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Re: Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
« Reply #7 on: Sunday, Dec 09, 2018 12:28 pm »
Google is an Orwellian nightmare being attacked by nutball leftists. May they both go down in flames.
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Re: Prof: Don’t tell students to ‘Google’ something … because the search engine is racist
« Reply #8 on: Sunday, Dec 09, 2018 12:34 pm »
Come on y'all, liberals eating their own is a beautiful thing.

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