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so you are think websites containing the keywords 'portraits', 'Europeans', and 'people' happen to predominantly be talking about portraits of non-European people by Europeans?

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Yes, and the search results show that there are. I'm not sure why you're even questioning this and not just looking at the search results beyond the color of the people in the paintings:

http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/62747229987/marten-van-my...

http://afroeurope.blogspot.ru/2010/08/history-of-black-peopl...

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Art/Addi...

Yes, blogs and tumblr sites but these are valid results.

Well if they are blackwashing the image results, they would be blackwashing the regular results too. I am not 100% convinced but I think you're best argument is that a search for "european people" gives the results you would expect. If they were blackwashing results, you would expect to see the same phenomenon there.

What do you make of the results for the search term "American inventors" which returns largely black inventors.

http://i.imgur.com/uTF3FTN.jpg

I think it reflects the reality of what people apparently consider great: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_inventors

Though, admittedly after Edison, Carver, Whitney, Franklin, Moorse, I ran out of people I consider "famous" inventors, so the list doesn't really impact me. I do question their inclusions for some inventors though...as quite a few were not born in the US, and only came to the US later on, but that's my own hang up)

I also suggest that this is a prepared result and not a search result so I don't hold it to the same scrutiny. I treat it the same as an advertisement.

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