Through the largest research site in the world, we can have a clear idea of ​​how society works and how internet users behave. Through Google search results, the association of terms such as "black woman teaching" with explicit pornography was discovered. The Techtudo website also carried out some tests of its own to confirm the relationship and contacted Google directly about it.
It turns out that there is a relationship between terms involving women and education to explicit pornographic content. This is not the direct fault of Google, which is a search tool and does not produce any content, but simply filters it according to words and by the "relevance" created by the criterion of number of searches, accesses and existing content with the keywords. key.
Not just black women, but "blonde/redhead/Japanese woman teaching" already imply pornographic results. The internet is simply a reflection of our society, which still reproduces a strong fetishization of women in positions in the field of education. These search results represent that a lot of erotic content is produced with these keywords, and that there are also a lot of searches with these guidelines. However, a search for "white woman teaching" does not yield this type of content.
Not long ago, the word "teacher" had among the definitions the following: "prostitute with whom teenagers start their sex life", as shown by Google's partner dictionary. This issue has now been resolved and the definition deleted. Google also reiterates that it has no intention of bringing this type of pornographic material to such searches, and that it will work on better filtering.
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It is also possible to filter sexual content through SafeSearch that Google itself offers. The company also responded to Techtudo with the following official statement: "When people use Search, we want to offer results that are relevant to the terms used in searches and we have no intention of showing explicit results to users, unless they are looking for it. Clearly, the result set for the mentioned term does not live up to this principle and we apologize. We are investigating the issue and, as always, will seek a solution to improve the results not only for this term, but also for other searches that may present similar challenges."
