Google removes racist image of Michelle Obama
London, Nov 25 (IANS) Google removed a racially offensive image of US First Lady Michelle Obama from its search engine Wednesday while the blog hosting it apologised in Chinese.
The image of Michelle with monkey features, which appeared at the top of Google’s search results, was posted on a blog called Hot Girls, which is hosted by the Google-owned blog service, Blogger.
Hot Girls later removed the image and displayed an apology in Chinese with a loose English translation.
‘I am very sorry for this article, and that this is the program automatically issued a document from the article. Do not the subject of race and politics make the discussion too radical and sincere hope that the world is very peaceful,’ said the blog.
Earlier, Google placed a notice on the manipulated image which appeared on searches for the US First Lady, stating that it is not the company’s policy to remove offensive content.
‘Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google,’ it said.
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Umm.. miss leading title.. Google didn’t remove anything… the original site owner did, its actually still cached on Google depending on where your located…
How vein and arrogant have our leaders become that such parody even shows up on anyone’s radar map. With real unemployment at 18%, hunger in the US as historic highs, and entire American neighborhoods being foreclosed by the very banks our president is forcing our children to bail out in their future; we have a President who is flying around the world with Oprah, apologizing and bowing to the world’s most oppressive dictators, and complain about how they photos look online!
What is this man turning this country into? Where have the American values gone?