> Isn't the ideal system to not assume anything about the content it's analyzing ...
Because Google no longer just searches for literal strings of text, ranked by links.
They now infer your meaning and find results that match your intent -- even if the exact search string doesn't exist in the search results.
For more on this, read about Hinton's work on "thought vectors" [1].
So if Google can't determine the meaning of African American language as well as it can standard English, then that content is likely to be less visible in search results.
Because Google no longer just searches for literal strings of text, ranked by links.
They now infer your meaning and find results that match your intent -- even if the exact search string doesn't exist in the search results.
For more on this, read about Hinton's work on "thought vectors" [1].
So if Google can't determine the meaning of African American language as well as it can standard English, then that content is likely to be less visible in search results.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-ste...