World White Web project wants to make Google’s search results more diverse

When you search on Google for the term “hand” or “leg,” the results you get back rarely feature a person of color. It was this particular search result that led Swedish design student Johanna Burai to launch the World White Web campaign. I was looking for an image of a black hand, and I expected to find one simply by searching for ‘hand’. A Google image search for the term “hand” gives you about 800 hits, but they are all white. You need to perform a more detailed search if you want to find non-white hands. The World White Web project…

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