Episode 348-1 Scott Adams: RacistGoogle

Date: 2018-12-24 | Duration: 6:00

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RacistGoogle the two top articles on me are two old hit pieces Both articles are top on Google, not on Duck Duck Go Neither article is current or has any reason to be a top hit

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[0:21]

[Music] yes that is the beautiful piano work of Cristina fashion you should all check it out you can see that my Twitter feed and you can see about hers and it's quite entertaining you're gonna like it so good morning happy Christmas Eve will you join me for the simultaneous up grab your cup your mug your tankard your Stein your beverage container and lift it to your lips and join me for the simultaneous it thats good stuff well I hope you've all done your shopping and I've got a little bit of wrapping to do
can I add my podcast to Spotify hmm maybe I'll see about that so those of

[1:24]

maybe I'll see about that so those of you who have been following my saga of a racist Google hashtag racist Google who insists on showing when somebody searches for me one of the top search images is a photoshopped image of me in
in a Nazi outfit now I've been trying to get Google to remove that and it doesn't seem to get removed now here's the interesting part as many of you have tweeted to me Scott Scott don't you understand how SEO works the more you talk about that picture and the more people are going to click on it and the and the higher it will go in the ranking yes people I do understand how that works and thanks for thinking I didn't understand that but here's the interesting part there are a couple things that I have not talked about that I've been watching if you google if you

[2:28]

I've been watching if you google if you google my name in the Google search engine you will get among the top page results two of the most negative articles ever written about me both of them are actually just hit pieces one from Bloomberg which is literally just a hit piece obviously politically motivated and another one from the Atlantic again just a hit piece now what happens now I've not talked about those two pieces right since I've been talking about Google being racist and marking me for bad search results I have not mentioned those two articles but those two articles are toward the top on Google and they are non-existent on DuckDuckGo and Bing so Bing and DuckDuckGo don't even show those near the top now if you say to me Oh Scott you're being paranoid because because Google just has an

[3:31]

because because Google just has an algorithm they're not they're not targeting you but wouldn't duck duck goes algorithm be pretty similar wouldn't bings algorithm be pretty similar I think so so the most negative article you can find on Bing at least among the top searches is one in which they they there's a Forbes article that calls me evil and I thought oh okay I guess I'm wrong because even Bing has a negative article and I click on the article that the headline literally calling me evil and I read it and it calls me a genius so it's actually a positive article with a little bit of negativity because they're not crazy about Trump but in terms of what they said about me totally positive so can you tell me there's any chance that this is accidental does

[4:32]

chance that this is accidental does anyone think that Google surfaces the two biggest just obvious hit pieces and the other search engines just don't see them because they're not that important and neither of them are current it seems a little bit coincidental doesn't it now it would have been who called me a Holocaust denier a a lot of people online have called me that but obviously I'm not so today I switched over officially to DuckDuckGo so I'm off of Google as a search engine I might not be able to avoid it entirely but in terms of my primary search engine I'm off now if you wondered how to do that all you have to do is search for DuckDuckGo and if you go to their page there's a there's a link to edit your Chrome browser and it's all just seamless you just click it and then that's your

[5:33]

just click it and then that's your default that's your default search engine now I don't think any of you should be on a racist racist search engine do you so I wouldn't use Google unless you feel like you identify with the racist all right