Negative Biases in Google SEO

[Internet Nomad]

If i told you to imagine a traditional English home.

An image like this would pop up in your head and you would be correct because thats what google image shows you if you type in “Traditional English home”

Now if i told you to do the same exercise for traditional Arab, Japanese, Persian houses.

Images like these would pop up in your minds.

You would be correct about all of them because these are the images you see when you search up traditional house next to each respective group I mentioned.

Now if i told you to imagine traditional somali house

Are you seeing images like this

Because thats the only type of images that pops up on google when type in traditional somali house.

Only the lowest class is the representation for somalis. All the other groups have had peasant class and huts of some kind but it doesn’t show up as the main representation for them.

If your excuse is these nations are not at war or rich. If you google palestianian home. You get nice cheery neighbourhoods.

So my question is why do we get our worst pushed out? Decades of bad press has pushed our filth to the front.

Leaving behind good representation like this behind

 

[Aseer]

If i told you to imagine a traditional English home.

An image like this would pop up in your head and you would be correct because thats what google image shows you if you type in “Traditional English home”
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Now if i told you to do the same exercise for traditional Arab, Japanese, Persian houses.

Images like these would pop up in your minds.
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You would be correct about all of them because these are the images you see when you search up traditional house next to each respective group I mentioned.

Now if i told you to imagine traditional somali house

Are you seeing images like this
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Because thats the only type of images that pops up on google when type in traditional somali house.

Only the lowest class is the representation for somalis. All the other groups have had peasant class and huts of some kind but it doesn’t show up as the main representation for them.

If your excuse is these nations are not at war or rich. If you google palestianian home. You get nice cheery neighbourhoods.
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So my question is why do we get our worst pushed out? Decades of bad press has pushed our filth to the front.

Leaving behind good representation like this behind
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I dont mind the nomadic houses I am just pissed they didnt bother to make them look good and appealing to the eye when they make it.

Look at the mongolian nomadic homes Very reliable and pleasing to the eye. If our nomadic homes looked nice, were comfortable and STILL remained their reliability I would be one of the first in line to become a geeljire.

 

[Internet Nomad]

I dont mind the nomadic houses I am just pissed they didnt bother to make them look good and appealing to the eye when they make it.
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Look at the mongolian nomadic homes Very reliable and pleasing to the eye. If our nomadic homes looked nice, were comfortable and STILL remained their reliability I would be one of the first in line to become a geeljire.

Yeah but they pushed this image forward with their tourism industry.

People will basically travel across the world just to live in a glorified hut for a couple days.

Even arabs tourist agencies pushes the glorified version of their tents

Mbs even met the JP president and US senate member in one of these.

They know the importance of image and how to push culture outwardly.

 

[Internet Nomad]

We need to go back to turning up to events with our own cultural heritage.

Instead of this bs

 

[Internet Nomad]

Even the head wrap it’s different to the saudi head wrap

Ours don’t drape down but its around the head with a flower type pattern not checkered like the arabs.

All our drip lost to time

 

[berberaboy66]

A lot of it is do with spelling iirc. If you type “mogadishu” and “muqdisho” into google images you get completely different results.

The name “mogadishu” is only really being used by western media outlets. If you look at the articles behind those photos talking about Somali houses, they’re most likely about people being evicted due to war/fighting.

 

[Fez]

This isn't just a bias against Somalis but the whole of SSA

Search Insert nationality (SSA) home and the image results will give you mud huts

 

[Internet Nomad]

Honestly respect to the amhara for keeping their garb

They look good in it too.

 

[Internet Nomad]

A lot of it is do with spelling iirc. If you type “mogadishu” and “muqdisho” into google images you get completely different results.

The name “mogadishu” is only really being used by western media outlets. If you look at the articles behind those photos talking about Somali houses, they’re most likely about people being evicted due to war/fighting.

Yeah but when you don’t tell your story dont be shocked when others do and they paint a negative image of you.

How many pages on the internet are there where Somali are trying to change perceptions about us?

Very little and when we are fighting against multi million dollar industry who want to smear our image we gonna need all the help we can get.

 

[berberaboy66]

Yeah but when you don’t tell your story dont be shocked when others do and they paint a negative image of you.

How many pages on the internet are there where Somali are trying to change perceptions about us?

Very little and when we are fighting against multi million dollar industry who want to smear our image we gonna need all the help we can get.
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Fatbeard came out 15 years ago. The other 2 30 years. The majority of young kids nowadays haven’t watched these shows. I feel like blaming the industry is a cop out.

 

[Internet Nomad]

@berberaboy66 if you want more of a recent phenomenon
the hashtag somalitiktok has 196 Billion views if you go check it out what is at the top of that hashtag? Is it something that helps our image or further depreciates it.

 

[Internet Nomad]

Fatbeard came out 15 years ago. The other 2 30 years. The majority of young kids nowadays haven’t watched these shows. I feel like blaming the industry is a cop out.

All those people who grew up on that didn’t disappear they are voting and they walk amongst us.

The stereotypes didn’t disappear when they turned 20. They either passed it down or carry it till this day.

 

[Internet Nomad]

This isn't just a bias against Somalis but the whole of SSA

Search Insert nationality (SSA) home and the image results will give you mud huts

Yeah because they don’t push their own narrative but wait till foreigners push it for them.

Its not due to a lack of beautiful architecture.

 

[Internet Nomad]

Dont fall for the racist colonial narrative that prior to the white man we never had houses 2 stories tall or any decent architecture.

Africans are sons of Adam(AS) like everyone else don’t let them trick you into thinking your xoolo because they will start treating you like one.