Web Crawlers Project Wonky Biases Across America

By Warren Rojas

Posted September 18, 2015 at 2:48pm

Real-life rocket scientist Andrew Rader posed a simple question to Google: “Why is [insert state name here] so …” in order to observe how the search engine would fill in the superlative blanks based on previous interrogatories.

The feedback proved somewhat frightening.

Google autocomplete results: “Why is [state] so…” pic.twitter.com/yzaQrkc7uO

— Weird History (@weird_hist) September 16, 2015

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