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The Prejudice map – or how to use Google to make things up

January 16, 2006

From the department of "I’ve too much time on my hands, so I’ll….." comes this little gem called the Prejudice Map. This map was created by doing context searches in Google for each of the countries displayed.

The Google search string used is this (with Germany as an example) = "germans are known for *"

It’s an interesting insight in how Google can become a dangerous source of biased information from a global context.

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