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Women Invent Things Too - Google Fixes “she invented”May 20 2007 | Google |
Eariler this month there was an extremely popular story on Digg which told the story of a guy and an argument he was having with his girlfriend. In an attempt to prove him wrong, his girlfriend did what so many of us now do, she turned to Google for the answer:
I was arguing with my girlfriend about women not inventing anything useful. In an attempt to prove me wrong she Google “She invented” only to have ask Did you mean “He invented”
Why was this such a big deal? It just so happens that there are many, many women inventors from Randi Altschul (invented the world’s first disposable cellphone) to Grace Hopper (world’s first computer compiler) to Mary Walton (developed a method of deflecting smoke stack emissions).
I came back across this story today when I was looking at the most popular stories of the last 30 days on Digg and I went to Google to try the search again for “she invented”:
The Did You Mean “he invented”? is now gone and as can be expected the Digg story (which received over 200 links as tracked by Yahoo) is the top result. Was this “fixed” because of the Digg story gaining such relevance and being on a trusted domain or was this a Google fix?
One thing stories like this do though is show us how much we can sometimes rely on Google, forgetting that at the end of the day - Google is a robot. As much as Google helps us in our everyday lives - is it really making us dumber?
Posted by Chris Winfield at 12:13 pm
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May 21st, 2007 at 9:55 am
Well I don’t think Google is making us dumber, but it surely is making us ask what are they doing to get smarter!
How can the robot get better at targeting sites that have proper content. Honestly, what this tells me is that nobody is optimizing for “She invented” so a story like the one on DIGG (a trusted domain, with potential to point lots of links) is going to take the first place.
If anyone wants to rank for “she invented,” now is prime time. LOL!
May 21st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Awesome thing to share esp with a girl. Liked it. CooL
May 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pm
A superb funda of making the girls more dumb well i sincerely appreciate the harddwork done by the girls but still !!!bet if i get a chance i’ll simply remove her or she from google….
hahahaha
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 am
@ CommenT By Mr. PanT
Mr Pant Iam not sure wat u hv written has any kinda sense…!! Its all CraP.. whom u will remove…. Man Get sOme LogiC n dan TaLk…..
June 6th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Its utter nonsense.. Men are always lazy.. “Women creates Man destroys”.. Idiotic!!!!!
June 6th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
well seriously this is something very sarcastic for girls …. but gooogle obviously has done a great job and i appreciate the hardwork done by them …..well MR. Bhagawati here thinks that , if he’ll get a chance he’ll change the whole world but lemme tell man it is not that easy …. and it needs a lot of hard work and i m dead sure sir u cannot do that , so let the girls be happy by removing their frustration here at this stupid…. no no no im sorry awesome website why are u bothered with no reasons ……. but one thing is for sure that girls are girls and cannot come over guys hahahahahahaha
June 6th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Himanshu - you’re entitled to your opinion but please just keep the language clean (I edited out your use of the “F” word). Thanks..
June 15th, 2007 at 8:35 am
I think neither women or men invents the things , the inventor is always a Human , beacuse only a good mind can invent anything , the dirty mind always try to destroy the things .So do not fight on these silly points
July 20th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Himanshu, dont you have any thing to do in life? Why r u wasting time on such stupid topics? If you dont have anything to do, come to me. I will give you some work (and money). If you think you are not capable to work, go to sleep. The world dosent need you
July 27th, 2007 at 9:08 am
God! Whats with you people?
Why cant we think ‘WE did’ instead of ‘man/woman did’ something? Is this some kind of a competition?
Himanshu, do you realise that it was not YOU who invented something? Let us give the credit to the genii who made our lives easier by their inventions.
September 7th, 2007 at 8:31 am
God(donno he or she ;))…shud think of reinventing Mr Himanshu Pant with a lil bit of sense this time….Man if u r planning to remove all “her” and “she” from google or elsewhere..just for a sec think of the lady..called ur mom(for ur info she is a she too)…now say…do u really want to do that???
September 8th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Miss Pooja i dont know that how did you find this website , may be u were looking for the perfect mirror for you:)………….i care the damn about he or she, i respect ou emotions but please dont throw out your personal emotional….. with no offence i would like to say that girl like u shud be recreated…. before writing in a forum u have to think twice but unfortunately it needs brains and that u dont have dont be personal to someone here…..and yes if u wanna say something to me u can mail to :himanshu.pant6286@gmail.com
but obviously watever it was a mistake or an intention but google has done something very good and very sarcastic for girls…. so u also njoy here……and before ur next update think twice:)
September 10th, 2007 at 4:43 am
;)…thanx dear…i really wanted to be re-created and ya with brains this time so that I dont even think of arguing with “ppl hopeless”.I hope God is listening to you Mr.Pant.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:01 am
I see a woman invented the chocolate chip cookie. Were would we be without these great woman inventors??ahhahahahahahah one more thing It was also an accident. She was trying to make chocolate cookies and thought the chocolate would be absorbed by the dough… Not exactly the brightest inventor out there.so Girls just leave it ……….
January 21st, 2008 at 2:30 am
THIS IS SIMPLY WASTE OF TIME… WITHIN THIS TIME WE CAN INVENT ANOTHER THING… (MAY BE A WOMEN..)
March 12th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Had a nice laugh reading the e mail i got today, i checked..but unfortunately it has been fixed.
ahhhh…cant belive i missed out on this!