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> The recent change, implemented without a formal announcement, is meant to present a variety of skin tones in image queries related to beauty, such as “beautiful skin” and “professional hairstyles,” as well as simpler people-related searches like “woman” or “happy family,” the Alphabet Inc.-owned company said Tuesday.

How is this not what you searched for? Is there an implicit constraint you think Google should be applying?

Note that search results have long favoured giving you an intentionally diverse selection of results in ambiguous cases, so you can narrow down for what you want more easily. Otherwise you'd probably get 12 different images of whoever the most popular celebrity is, which is probably not the most useful result in practice.




Search for "white people" and see if you get what you searched.


I just did a search for white person and 50% of the results are black people. I don't know what this means, but it seems odd.


It means Google is a totalitarian company full of assholes who are not helping anyone.




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