Google shows conservative women in bikinis

Imagine my surprise. I typed “Michelle Malkin” into Google’s web search engine — and their results included a picture. Of Michelle Malkin in a bikini.

This must be a fluke, I thought — so I tried typing “Ann Coulter” into Google’s web search engine. After all, Coulter is another famous female pundit — and also a conservative one — so I’d expect Google to pull up a series of web pages with her commentary, and not pictures of Coulter in a bikini.

But I was wrong.



This isn’t Google’s image directory I’m searching; these are their search results for the web. I knew Google had been trying new layouts of their results recently — but could there be another explanation?

Two bikini pictures could still be a coincidence, I thought. What would happen if I typed in the name of a male conservative pundit — maybe a reporter for the Cybercast News Service. Let’s see… If we innocently go to Google’s web search engine, and type in the name “Jeff Gannon”….



Yow!

To be fair to Google, the Jeff Gannon picture makes sense. His racy past drew a lot of attention when it was discovered by investigative bloggers. But web surfers who look for conspiracies will still want to ask why Google never displays a picture when I search for a liberal pundit. And I mean never…

Markos Moulitsas? Nope. If you go to Google’s web directory and type in the name of the man behind the Daily Kos blog, Google’s search results are all text. What happens when you type in Duncan B. Black — the editor of the popular liberal site Eschaton? His results also text-only. Christie Hardin Smith? Josh Marshall?

Nope. Every time I typed the name of a liberal pundit into Google, their search results came back without pictures. Molly Ivins? Cokie Roberts? Nope. For these unabashedly liberal pundits, Google shows only text results.

Now, there’s lots of reasons why this could be happening. While Google is transitioning to a new format for its search results, this might be a temporary aberration. Maybe Google plans to add images to all their searches soon, and they’ve arbitrarily started with female conservative pundits. Maybe Google will only show images when there’s something especially controversial — like a conservative pundit wearing a bikini.

Or maybe there’s a practical joker at Google who really hates conservatives.

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14 Responses to “Google shows conservative women in bikinis”

1. Ema Kwiatkowski:
   August 11th, 2007
   

   sadly, i think it might be that google’s image search is based on popularity…so there’s people out there looking for pictures of Ann Coulter in a bikini *shudder*

2. Miklo16:
   August 12th, 2007
   

   I would love to see the ultimate transvestite witch – Ann Coulter – debate Rhandi Rhodes in a one on one format. Wow!! Rhandi would tear the balls off that skinny bitch by presenting the FACTS

3. likwidshoe:
   August 16th, 2007
   

   Ahhh..that famous liberal “tolerance”.

   Right guys?

4. Emmanuel:
   November 14th, 2007
   

   A social conservative is a bigger target than a social leftist for this type of, uh, ‘criticism.’ If you can call it that. Social conservatives are less likely to be scantily clad in public, and, so, racy pictures are more likely to be widely distributed and sought after.

5. Emmanuel:
   November 14th, 2007
   

   Also, Markos Moulitsas in a bikini isn’t exactly something that I could see anybody looking for. Most relatively socially-left people will not give a damn, and most relatively socially-right people would not be surprised, should a picture surface. Unless he has fangirls. They’re outliers, though.

6. Ken:
   November 14th, 2007
   

   Pity Malkins is fake:

   http://www.psychophil.com/weblog/?p=1403

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   March 7th, 2008
   

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8. عاشق الكس:
   March 19th, 2008
   

   sex

9. Pravish Thomas:
   March 29th, 2008
   

   True, but Google Has solved this and now has safe filter :)

10. Google Watch:
    May 19th, 2008
    

    things are a lot better now…

11. ahmed aflah:
    May 21st, 2008
    

    MALDIVES H.CHIBA UP YOU 5/22/2008 12:3

12. ustoopid:
    August 15th, 2008
    

    lol

13. kajal:
    February 18th, 2009
    

    you should make easily available the naked photos.

14. peace life:
    March 17th, 2009
    

    This sounds funny. But on serious note, google doesn’t and cannot have control over images being displayed for search words. It just picks up alt and title tags of images, and clusters them for indexing

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