Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Google and Abu Ghraib / Lynndie England images:
A [1]Metafilter post complains that [2]a Google Images search for
"Lynndie England" comes up with nothing (even with SafeSearch off),
and [3]a search for "Abu Ghraib" comes up with little; on the other
hand, Yahoo images search for [4]"Lynndie England" and [5]"Abu Ghraib"
(thanks to reader Mark Cridland for the pointer). I checked it out,
and the allegation seems accurate.
Any thoughts on why the Google search engine ("The most comprehensive
image search on the web," according to the [6]Google images search
page) is failing to locate things that Yahoo is locating? Is it a
technological failure on Google's part, or a deliberate decision to
silently block those pages? Either answer might lead Google users to
be skeptical of the results that it yields in other cases, too. Or am
I mistaken on the facts?
References
1. http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36800
2.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&output=search&q=lynndie+england&btnG=Search
3.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&output=search&q=abu+ghraib
4.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=lynndie+england&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-img-t&fl=0&x=wrt
5.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=abu+ghraib&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-img-t&fl=0&x=wrt
6. http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=
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