Well I’m sure a lot of you will have heard about the story with the picture of Michelle Obama (President Obama’s wife, in the US) ranking 1st on Google image search. This however, wasn’t a normal picture of her. It was a fairly vile looking image, which made her look like a monkey – Quite racist, it seems. You can see it below:

Not the nicest image in the world, it must be said. As you can see from the image, Google’s answer to this problem was to run a few Google ads saying that some search results may be offensive. Does that really solve anything? Do people suddenly stop seeing this image? No. It solves nothing, and this picture is, according to Google, not “contradicting their Terms of Service”.

I’m not sure what President Obama thinks, or indeed Michelle Obama. Google did apologise for the image though.

What I find funny, as well as quite interesting, is how this image managed to rank so high on Google images to start with. For a popular person like Michelle, it can’t be that easy going straight to #1 on Google image search. The person who owned the image must have done some pretty good work to have pulled this off.

I’m sure which ever site is hosting this image is laughing right now, because they’ll be getting a lot of extra visitors from this. You know what they say, bad publicity is better than no publicity. Well, sort-of anyway.