{"id":7063,"date":"2015-05-26T01:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T06:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2015-05-26T01:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T06:54:45","slug":"google-maps-search-for-n-house-returned-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/google-maps-search-for-n-house-returned-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Google maps search for N***** House returned: the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-maps-search-for-n-House-yields-White-House.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-maps-search-for-n-House-yields-White-House.png\" alt=\"google maps search for n**** House yields White House\" width=\"640\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7065\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-maps-search-for-n-House-yields-White-House.png 640w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-maps-search-for-n-House-yields-White-House-225x113.png 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-maps-search-for-n-House-yields-White-House-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s an embarrassment to the search giant that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/05\/google-maps-racist\/\">Google Maps produced highly inappropriate racist results<\/a>, even though it happened because racist terms are often shared on the internet. A Wired reporter explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was discovered that when searching for \u201cn***a house\u201d and \u201cn***a king,\u201d Maps returned a surprising location: the White House. A search for \u201cslut\u2019s house\u201d led to an Indiana women\u2019s dorm. Initially, you may have suspected this to be the work of a lone vandal, or even a coordinated campaign. But Google Maps gave racist, degrading results not because it was compromised, but because the internet itself is racist and degrading &#8230; It &#8230; means that if enough people online refer to a specific place using vile epithets, even one of the most recognizable landmarks in the United States can be reduced to racist garbage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google got plenty of egg plastered on its face. Executives apologized and removed the offensive results, but some feel they shouldn&#8217;t be let off the hook too easily. LovelyTi makes good points:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" align=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RM0DiGiwbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/web\/google-deeply-upset-by-racist-map-searches-results-and-labels\/#ixzz3bDnwLpTW\">Google VP offered an apology<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following the PR nightmare of the racist Google Maps search for \u201cn\u2014- house\u201d that landed users at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Google has issued an official apology. A <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/sorry-for-our-google-maps-search-mess-up.html\">blog post<\/a> by vice president of Engineering and Product Management Jen Fitzpatrick begins, \u201cThis week, we had some problems with Google Maps, which was displaying results for certain offensive search queries. Like many of you, we were deeply upset by this issue, and we are fixing it now. We apologize this has taken some time to resolve, and want to share more about what we are doing to correct the problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But after two days, there was still no glowing news to share about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/racist-google-maps-search-white-house\/\">Google&#8217;s reaction to the White House gaffe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Google Maps users were alarmed by the the very disturbing discovery that searching the racial slur \u201cn\u2014- king\u201d directed them to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or as it\u2019s more commonly known, the White House. The same results were achieved with a search for \u201cn\u2014- house.\u201d If anyone needed proof of the ongoing existence of racism in the United States, there are now literally directions for it.<br \/>\nFollowing this overt display of racism, poor taste, and all around foolishness, Google announced that they were \u201ctemporarily disabling editing on Map Maker\u201d as they \u201ccontinue[d] to work towards making the moderation system more robust.\u201d A spokesperson for the tech company stated, \u201cSome inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologize for any offense this may have caused. Our teams are working to fix this issue quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the issue does not appear to have been fully resolved quite yet, as a current search of \u201cn\u2014- house\u201d still zooms in on the presidential residence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems to be corrected now, though. When I tried the search myself at 2:30 am on May 25 no objectionable results turned up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an embarrassment to the search giant that Google Maps produced highly inappropriate racist results, even though it happened because racist terms are often shared on the internet. A Wired reporter explains: It was discovered that when searching for \u201cn***a house\u201d and \u201cn***a king,\u201d Maps returned a surprising location: the White House. A search for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/google-maps-search-for-n-house-returned-the-white-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google maps search for N***** House returned: the White House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,160],"tags":[1135,486,1869,1870,1871,1040,1868],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-news-truths","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-maps","tag-n","tag-n-word","tag-racist","tag-slur"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}