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Prescriptive vs descriptive search results

So perhaps it is my Male Privilege at work here, but …

So Google notes that a search request has an easily modifiable variant that is much, much more frequently searched for, and so (as Google helpfully does) it does the original entered search, but also suggests the alternative.

That sounds like the right thing to do. That it gets entangled in gender politics seems beside the point.  It's not political commentary, but a reflection of the usage of the tool. The bias, if you want to call it that, is not on the part of Google or its algorithms, but on the part of people who search for stuff. Unless you're going to suggest that gender-specific words should be excluded from consideration as offered alternatives, I don't think there's a lot that can (or should) be done here.

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Interesting story here about search algorithms and bias.

Why did this simple Google Search get retweeted 3,500 times?
When I googled “English major who taught herself calculus,” Google gave me the result I wanted — plus a most unhelpful suggestion.

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