Should Google Dump Image Thumbnails From Search Results?

I’ve been trying to write a post about this, the discovery of images of women who discuss politics, photoshopped into bikinis, above their Google search results, but I can’t. There’s something that pisses me off about Google showing off all these sexually charged pictures of normally professional women (especially fake pictures) that I can’t articulate in a calm, rational fashion.
I feel like Google needs to dump the entire practice of showing image thumnails above search results until it can filter out any pictures that show women in a demeaning light, but it won’t and it can’t. The ranking algorithm is based on link popularity, and these images tend to be popular with the degenerates that make up so much of the internet population. I don’t distinguish myself from those degenerates, but I’m sickened at the idea that if I have a daughter someday, a disgusting photo of […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg