search engines
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Bing And Yahoo Are Surfacing Some Extremely Racist Search Queries
In yet another case of a search engine finding itself in hot water over racist, sexist or otherwise problematic search results, it appears Microsoft’s Bing — whose technology also powers Yahoo’s search function — is returning wildly offensive related search suggestions in its image search function. A report from online tech blog How-To Geek published…
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Google Says It’s Received 2.4 Million Takedown Requests Under EU’s ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Laws
Google has now been complying with the European Union’s controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years. On Monday, the search giant released an updated version of its annual Transparency Report, which discloses how many and what kind of requests…
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Digital Footprints Paint An Eerily Accurate Picture Of Europe’s Refugees
Using search data collected by Google, researchers at the Pew Research Center have reconstructed the journeys taken by refugees flowing into Europe from the Middle East. It represents a new way of tracking migration patterns — but the technique could eventually lead to misuse.
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There’s Now A Futurama Version Of That Brilliant Simpsons Quote Search Engine
Remember Frinkiac, the amazing database that lets you search for thousands of iconic Simpsons quotes for the perfect screencap? And then let you gif them, rendering the need for actual language in internet communication null and void? Well, now it has a Futurama-flavoured sibling. With blackjack and hookers!