Comments on: Ever do a Google Images search for Michelle Obama?

By: Blessedbrilliant

Blessedbrilliant — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:15:51 +0000

In agreement

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:28:16 +0000

Mozell, I’m in agreement.

I arrived here courtesy of altavista.com, today.

By: killacaravagio

killacaravagio — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:50:09 +0000

this isn’t the only issue… the real problems the flair up of racist ideals and use of substatutivete terminology… and maybe we think that there are not millions of racists on the internet everyday trying in this kind of stuff. and do we really want to start censoring the internet and make it like any other media?

By: Mozell

Mozell — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:15:34 +0000

Google knows what is going on. I mean really. The caption underneath the picture says Barack Obama, not Michelle Obama. So if it’s all about urls and algorithms or whatever, then why am I clearly typing in Michelle and getting Barack? Notice that all of the other pictures have her name listed underneath. The fact that you notified them the morning of Nov 15 and it is now Nov 17 says everything we need to know about them. I propose we take it back to the old school. When our grand parents and great-grand parents wanted results they hit ‘em where it hurts. Let’s all remember there are several other search engines besides google. If we all stop using google search engine for everything, I’m certain they will take notice. By then it will be too little, too late.

Speaking of it not costing us a penny. Here are some search engines you might want to replace google with on your tool bar: blackwebportal.com, yahoo.com, altavista.com, lycos.com, ask.com just to name a few. I did an image search on each of these pages and within the first five (5) pages not one of them came up with this image. Let’s remember the people came up with the phrase “google it”. They don’t have a monopoly on internet searches, they have a monopoly on our minds. So let’s make a different choice. If we put the dollars into other sites, they will be as powerful as google and run as well or better as they obviously are already.

By: Monica Rowland (deltavogue)

Monica Rowland (deltavogue) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:10:41 +0000

Thank you for writing this article. After reading it.. I responded to Google via your link, and I also started a petition on Twitter. We have 78 signatures right now… in less that 24 hours. I hope that it also helped to bring it to Google’s attention. In the petition I reference and give the link to this article.. so hopefully more people are now reading your blog as well. Please log on to twitter and sign our petition. This needs to go! Here is the link..

http://act.ly/19t

Sincerely,

Monica Levy-Rowland
@Deltavogue on Twitter

By: G

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:41:37 +0000

A Google employee….what is the name of this employee, and if a name is not available, where is the source of *this* status?

By: SouthernGirl2

SouthernGirl2 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:57:21 +0000

Pepper,

You’re so right about them being jealous. I’ve been on one board fighting back hard against the hate. Nah Nah Nah, I AIN’T gonna let them say vile things about our President & lovely First Lady and get away with it.

Their hate is runs deep because a black man is running the country. These ignorants are ranting because the President bowed. I responded…

“President Barack Hussein Obama is showing respect. If you had any brains, trash, you’d learn a thing or two! But what can I expect from trash? *snicker* I mean really”!

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:44:30 +0000

A Google Employee replied that it’s up for review. Good job bringing this to their attention!

By: pepper

pepper — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:10:14 +0000

Great job everyone. Hopefully they will take the picture down.

@SouthernGirl2
These people are just jealous. Why would they spend so much time on someone they don’t like. They obsessed with her.

By: Aminah Hanan

Aminah Hanan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:17:00 +0000

@Lynn This is a step in the right direction. Let’s just hope that their “appropriate action and speedy review” leads to the image being taken down.