Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Google suggestions are misogynistic



Try this search (assuming Goggle has not yet fixed the issue.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=she+invented

Credit to about a thousand other blogs and Digg for highlighting this issue in the last 24 hours.

Do our language usage patterns counter our mission to bring balance to our society?

Edit:

Compare the above with other Google searches, such as:


she creates
she built
she composed
she studied

They all elicit a prompt similar to "Did you mean: he studied

How many more can you find? :(