Thursday March 19, 2009, 4:37 pm
Strangely enough, when I google "mother and child photo" I don't get the same results as the writer of this piece.

Googling that gets me to this page:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=cb-hp06&type=advisor&ei=UTF-8&p=mother%20and%20child%20photo

And on the fourth entry down, which I clicked at random, the second of many pages contains a photo of a woman and her child - with the woman wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf. And, if I chose to look further, I'm sure I'd find more.

http://photobucket.com/images/mother%20and%20child/

So it appears that Google does actually know that Arab and Muslim mothers and children exist.

Thursday March 19, 2009, 4:44 pm
Sorry - I accidentally used Yahoo for the above. But Google has the same type of result:

Googling mother and child brings up this page:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mother+and+child+photos

And the second entry does indeed contain a photo of a Muslim mother and child:

http://www.acclaimimages.com/search_terms/mother_and_child.html

And again - that was a random click. I have no doubt that there are others to be found.

Thursday March 19, 2009, 4:50 pm
As does this site, which was number 5 on the google first page:

http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/m/mother_and_child.asp

Thursday March 19, 2009, 4:58 pm
i went for pages on google and only saw a couple

Thursday March 19, 2009, 5:03 pm
Glad to see you found some too, Cheryl. And, of course, Google only goes by the tags and words put down by the people who actually post photos. If I have a site with a photo of a mother and child in Gaza and I don't label it as "mother and child photo" (or words to that effect), then Google isn't going to bring it up when you're searching for "mother and child photo". Because Google obviously doesn't check the photo to see what it looks like and come up with tags of its own.....

Thursday March 19, 2009, 5:16 pm
Why do these people LOOK for problems...aren't there enough in the world...??? I'm not even tracking this useless article/topic.

Friday March 20, 2009, 5:19 pm
Madalena is right, google is racist. I didn't find a single picture of a Jewish mother picking up bits of her child after a suicide bombe or crying over a baby/toddler shot by a sniper.

Sunday March 22, 2009, 10:05 am
That is very common! when I try to google for example: "USA drug lords" it takes me to "Mexican drug lords" inmediatly!