Hey there. I opened Chrome and recently saw a "New! Search for Black-owned shops near you."
Is there a way to disable this?
Just for the record, I'm no racist. I just genuinely don't care what race the owner of a business I walk into is. Thanks Reddit <3
Just don’t search for ‘black owned’ and you get what you want, and people who want to search for black owned will get the result they want by typing that.
Also you don’t need to imply your not racist by stating what you said. That is what the extremist want. You viewpoint is exact opposite of racism. What google is doing is actually racist.
Yup. Typical liberals. “Lets condemn racism! – by means of segregation and basing everything on race”. So so dumb.
OP, look at it as a reminder to uninstall Chrome once and for all…
( at Google ) Fine! I’ll just create my own browser. With blackjack and hookers!
Hey “non-racists:” How about, just don’t use the new feature?
Possible Solutions:
\- AdBlock doesn’t work as its an internal page: [https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/6000188231-why-doesn-t-adblock-work-on-the-new-tab-and-other-internal-browser-pages-](https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/6000188231-why-doesn-t-adblock-work-on-the-new-tab-and-other-internal-browser-pages-)
\- Change the new tab page (or make a dupe of the original html page, store it locally, set new tab to that page & omit the trash)
\- There are other chromium based browsers out there (majority of which that don’t shove bs down your throat).
\^ As a Mac user, this was “the straw that broke the camels back”. Peace out Google – may you return to the greatness you once were. For now, I gotta DuckDuckGo 🙂
lol the little banners on the bottom are not new, chrome puts them there for various things
Wow, I never saw this.
ublock has “block element”
Good on Google for creating with feature. They continue to do such great work, even when the cameras are off. I think small businesses in general owe Google a lot of gratitude. Without Google Docs alone, I’m not sure where I would be!!!!
I think you have to click on it to search for that. Just don’t click on it.
use firefox, a better browser
What a world we live in when you have to qualify that you’re “not a racist” because you don’t want to select a business based on the skin color of the owners.
I am certain that this feature will be abused for SEO very very soon. Case in point, when I click the link, I get a lot of business’s that are not in fact owned by black people. All of them on the first 2 pages actually. This makes sense as I think there are <10 black people in my town. I notice on a lot of the results it says "Website mentioned black owned." Idk how google is getting this data, but it is not accurate, and it looks like if you add that to even a comment section of a google review it will bump their ratings for at least this search. Who knows if it effects normal SEO or not.
Oh and the BLM office is the number 2 spot on my result. The Bureau of Land Management every person that works at the local office is white. Walmart is number 3, they at least used to have a black manager, he doesn't work there anymore though.
Searching for a business by race is racist in itself. Google is a woke joke.
I agree, I am not sure what the deal is with all this stuff this last year. There has to be a limit to what politically correct controls in our world. I have to say if I was a black person I would be offended. But that’s just me and I am white. How do I know if what I just said is racist? Why should I have to worry all the time about it? People are going to offend people with the things they say. It is just life. Perfect is not all it is cracked up to be.
i also seen this, and as a mexican i tried “latin owned” and “mexican owned”, no results. i tried “white owned”, no results, “asian owned”, no results….this is stupid and id also like to remove this feature because it in and of itself is racist
So glad we went from “racists only shop at some stores because skin color” to big tech sponsored “shop at these businesses, because skin color”.
Google, you are textbook racist.
Wow, being able to tailor your search based on the skin color of the business owner. That’s defiantly not Racist…
This is literally racism coming from Google… Do they not understand how this is f\*cked up? I believe in equality. This ain’t it…
How do you make it go away?
They are trying so so hard to be woke…and it’s going to backfire. They aren’t curing any racist, they are just irritating people to the point they could become racist. That’s what happens when this is all you see. I turned my TV on yesterday and saw “Black Messiah” on the Roku, then went to Netflix and Amazon Prime and it’s nothing but “Black history month” “Strong black lead” “Movies with a black director” “Black this, black that.” None of that makes racists non-racist, but it could turn people who are sick of it into one.
Modern racism but this fits in to the agenda? Kinda? God what have we become
Great time to switch to Firefox
I was kind of amused when I saw it, but.. why do you think you have to click it? If having the word black at the bottom of your page offends you so much, maybe use a different search engine? It doesn’t show up if you use a different engine.
It’s normal to prefer your own race over another, despite all the bull. If you do have a way to remove this obvious misjudgement on Goggles part please post
It’s now on edge as well, All of you instead of playing racial cards why can’t you put enough energy into a solution for people who don’t want this added to there menus.
Reversing racism won’t solve anything. I can’t believe Google went there.
SOOOOO fukin racist for this sh’t.
Imagine a WHITE OWNED shops search feature. These people would lose their KKK loving minds
THIS IS RACISM AT ITS BEST JUST IMAGEN IF IT SAID “White\_owned shop” it should not MATTER who or what color your SKIN is…. WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF GOD ALMIGHTY” amen
Uber and other businesses are doing this as well. I find it to be absolutely ridiculous because everything in life is a meritocracy or we simply can’t evolve. I live in New Orleans where, as a white man, I am a minority. I’d say over half of my favorite restaurants are owned by African Americans but it’s cause they’re delicious, NOT cause they’re black. So insane that we’re here.
I can back this. I mean, im not racist, it just a little weird google put this up. The qaulity of services doesn’t change because of your race, just how hard you work
Simple… use DuckDuckGo for your searches
When I saw this I was wondering how no one saw the irony in this. I’m all for supporting a business that I like, but race doesn’t play a role in that. Don’t we see the hypocrisy in this? Let’s NOT label people based on their race, but let’s ID all black owned businesses like they’re in a Ghetto.
Any solution for this?
If I were black I’d feel patronized
I feel the same way. Same as BLM. If you have to mention a color you’re the racist…
Its not Chrome, its [www.google.com](https://www.google.com) is the issue..
Considering I am Jewish, I’d be terrified if they put a “Jewish-owned stores” there, as it brings back memories of the Holocaust and the “Don’t Buy From the Jews”..
The whole idea of labelling businesses by the race/ethnicity/skin color of their owners is sickening to me and I have a hard time thinking it will break racial barriers and promote racial harmony.
ANd, how is it not “RACE-ist” to label a stop “Black Owned”. If they put “White Owned” is that suddenly racist?
Reminds me a little of Jim Crow era labelling.. White areas/Black areas.. I feel we are going backward.
Obligatory “not a racist”, but I don’t WANT to constantly have things shoved in my face forcing me think about racial/racist crap 24/7. I’m not interested in the least if a place is black owned or not and I sure won’t go out of my way to patronize places that are … and you want to know why? BECAUSE GOOGLE WANTS ME TO AND F’K THAT.
Is Google making me racist?
I posted about this with the photo on twitter also. Like what does it matter? But can you imagine if it said a WHITE owned business? Just think about that for a minute. It would be a headline on CNN for 2 days straight.
“Shop by your preferred race”. An unspeakably racist, stupid, hypocritical, and dangerous precedent to set. At this point, it’s hard to not think their goal is division and escalation.
Everybody complaining in this thread, how many of you voted for this kind of thing on election day? Serious question.
I find the Black-Owned shops thing to be extremely racist and I am against it.
I support BLM.
I’m glad there help one race over another it helps me prove that there the racists they say i am.
I made a Chrome extension to disable Google Doodles, and these ever increasing ads – because let’s be real, that’s what this link that you mention really is – an advertisement for shops under the pretense of “wokeness” – and its too distracting for me to be looking at this stuff every time I open a tab. They’re already making money off of our data, and now they want to distract us ads? Its completely ridiculous.
The plugin is really simple, it just opens a blank page for each new tab. You use the url bar to search. If you are interested, I can upload this for you.
Well that’s what you vote for, that’s what you get. Stupidity reached a new lvl, and it’s just a beginning.
yes its called duck duck go
Is there a way to toggle the race of the searched business? Can we toggle it to Asian business or Arab business if we want to lend those communities a hand too?
so am i racist for white owned searches?
Thanks for the duckduckgo advice. Maybe I’ll finally swap back over to Firefox. Edit- Darn Chrome\* keeps asking to swap back.
That racist link and this thread are both fkd up. I’m for women opening the door for themselves also. Equality all the way!!
Oh wow, Mine did the same thing! Which is odd, because I haven’t seen anything that say’s “White-owned shops near you”? I’m no racist, but would actually be pretty pissed if I saw that. So what is this “BLACK OWNED BUSINESS” business? Racism? LOL!! People REALLY need to STOP dividing the people in this Country…….
It’s now a Chrome Browser thing. It’s a website google.com thing.
Shows up on Edge Chromium also.
u/ihop_koorban
i just solved this with Stylus: [https://imgur.com/a/0b3O0pH](https://imgur.com/a/0b3O0pH)
edit: sorry this only works for [google.com](https://google.com) :'(
Either:
A.) Get a new tab extension for chrome: [https://lifehacker.com/the-15-best-new-tab-extensions-for-google-chrome-fans-1832040696](https://lifehacker.com/the-15-best-new-tab-extensions-for-google-chrome-fans-1832040696)
B.) As mentioned by others, switch off of Chrome
In either case, as mentioned by others, switch your search provider to [duckduckgo.com](https://duckduckgo.com) as [google.com](https://google.com) is infested with this racist garbage also.
I actually remember a time when a Google search actually gave you pages of DIFFERENT results instead of 2 or 3 pages of the same thing just republished by a different website, selectively chosen to support what they want you to know or read.
I opened Google and saw “search for black owned businesses near you”. Really? Let’s see…I’m calling an electrician: “Mr. Smith, I need to get some electrical work done, but before we start the conversation, what color are you? According to Google you are black. Are you black, because I’m looking for a black contractor”.
Replace “black” with the race of your choice…
A lot of you disappoint the shit outta me. Bunch of lame asses
Is this the back of the internet? Rosa Parks would never be here.
Drinking fountians for colords
Bathrooms for colords
Now the colords can keep within their own group,
Shop together, Live together even.
Change your default search engine to something else (DuckDuckGo for example) and you won’t see it on your new tabs.
DDG has “bangs” so you can still search google by doing:
*!g “is google racist?”*
Is there a way to search for white-owned businesses?
be a kindergartener, think like a kindergartener, its that simple and they really gotta make race everything…