It was noticed today hateful memes appear in image results for “jewish baby strollers.” We apologize. These don’t reflect our opinions. We try to show content matching all key terms searched for, as people normally want. But for “data voids” like this, it can be problematic...
For “baby strollers”, there’s lots of helpful content. For this, there’s not. That’s not surprising. It’s not likely a topic normally searched for, nor an actual product that’s marketed. There’s a “void” of good content to surface that matches what was asked for…
That’s the explanation of why these appear. It’s not meant as an excuse. We’ve done considerable work with improving data void situations & finding systematic improvements. We’ll look at this situation to see how we can further improve. Our apologies again for the concerns here.
Some have asked when these results will be removed. We only remove web-based results for extremely limited reasons: blog.google/products/searc…
In cases like this, where we don't have policy that covers removal, we work to see if there are ways to surface more helpful content....
Working to improve our results generally takes more time but helps ensure any improvements work overall, not just for one situation but many.
These images may also be removed if the sites hosting them remove them. If that happens, content drops out naturally over time.
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Last week, I gave a presentation about Google Search results not being perfect, how we update to improve those results, and how our guidance to creators needs to improve. In this thread, I’ll share my slides and commentary for those who weren’t able to attend my talk…
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Our helpful content system is an example of improving Google Search:
It launched last year with the goal to ensure people see more original, helpful content created for people. In Sept, we improved the system. That sparked some creator questions & concerns developers.google.com/search/docs/ap…
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That's key to being successful with our helpful content system -- and if it's not helpful content, the system catches that. More here: developers.google.com/search/updates…
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Today, we're rolling out the “Results about you” tool for Google Search, making it easy to request the removal of search results that lead to content with personally identifying information, such as your personal phone number, home address or email address…
The tool is available from the Google app and the web beginning today, in the US for English to start (we’re looking to expand the tool globally in the future). Click the three dots next to any result to open the “About this results” panel, then use the “Remove result” option...
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