And he might have caught the cat if he didn’t have to break out into a premature celebratory dance.
RushmoreDrive: We need a black Google
Aug 18, ’08
8:24 PM
From the LA Times Blog:
Is Google too white? No, we’re not talking about the white home page that’s so bright it motivates some people to change its appearance to save energy. We’re wondering if it is too white, as in Caucasian, because so many white people use Google that it returns results that alienate the rest of the population.
Johnny C. Taylor thinks so. In April he launched RushmoreDrive, a search engine that returns results more targeted at the black community (it’s named after the North Carolina street where its offices are).
“Someone said to me, ‘We don’t have a white Google, why do you need a black Google?’” he said during a visit to the Times today. “And I said, ‘Of course you do — It’s called Google.’”
By way of example, he said that a black person searching for “whitney,” for instance, probably wouldn’t be looking for the Whitney Museum of Art, which comes up first on Google, or Whitney Bank, which comes up second. Instead, Taylor said, the searcher would likely be looking for Whitney Houston, who doesn’t come up in Google until No. 4. That’s why a search for “Whitney” on RushmoreDrive, which is part of Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp conglomerate, turns up the vocalist as its first result.
Interesting Vegas Tidbits
Aug 18, ’08
12:11 PM
VegasTodayandTomorrow has some interesting trivia that I hadn’t heard about such as the Window Eye Trick.
Daily Dose of Ingersoll
Aug 18, ’08
8:20 AM
Thousands of Christians have asked: How was it possible for
Christ and his apostles to deceive the people of Jerusalem? How
came the miracles to be believed? Who had the impudence to say that
lepers had been cleansed, and that the dead had been raised? How
could such impostors have escaped exposure?I ask: How did Mohammed deceive the people of Mecca? How has
the Catholic Church imposed upon millions of people? Who can
account for the success of falsehood?Millions of people are directly interested in the false. They
live by lying. To deceive is the business of their lives. Truth is
a cripple; lies have wings. It is almost impossible to overtake and
kill and bury a lie. If you do, some one will erect a monument over
the grave, and the lie is born again as an epitaph.Robert Green Ingersoll – “Truth of History” (1887)
