>White American inventors are typically just referred to as "inventors," have you tried searching that?
when I search "inventors", 7/39 images are from articles specifically about overlooked black inventors. all searches relating to inventors are poisoned by american (i.e. foreign) culture war topics.
>probably it is keying to the second half of "African-American"
I refuse to believe that google can be so stupid as to do this after over two decades of development in natural language processing.
> I refuse to believe that google can be so stupid as to do this after over two decades of development in natural language processing.
I don't. They might have spent those decades speeding up and scaling their ability to be stupid. Stupidity at scale describes a pretty significant chunk of the internet.
Anyway, I don't think misinterpreting your intent on this type of search really costs them much, it seems like an edge case example to me.
For "American inventors:" probably it is keying to the second half of "African-American"
White American inventors are typically just referred to as "inventors," have you tried searching that?