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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Haley Barbour's Google problem

By Justin Elliott
Salon.com

It looks like Rick Santorum is not the only presidential candidate with a Google Problem.

This is what Google's autocomplete algorithm generates if you start typing Haley Barbour's name into the search engine:

A whopping seven of the nine results center on race-related flaps that Barbour has been involved in over the years. Google's autocomplete feature draws on factors including the popularity of search terms. To explain what each of these searches refers to:

Haley Barbour racist: This one is self-explanatory

Haley Barbour civil rights: Ditto.

(More here.)

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