[HN Gopher] Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this que...
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       Why doesn't Arnold Schwarznegger show up in this query on Google?
        
       Author : throwaway29303
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2022-11-26 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | throwaway29303 wrote:
       | https://imgur.com/a/4JDm49f
        
       | sn0w_crash wrote:
       | Interesting. May be a bug related to the schema markup
       | 
       | Same issue happens for a search of "the terminator cast"
        
       | hgsgm wrote:
       | Arnold seems to be totally missing.
       | 
       | Not in Kindergarten Cop either.
       | 
       | Last Action Hero has T-1000 but not Arnold.
       | 
       | https://www.google.com/search?q=cast+of+last+action+hero
        
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       | roelschroeven wrote:
       | Works for me: https://imgur.com/a/2cEuYyS
       | 
       | Searching from Belgium. Can it be region or language related?
        
         | Beltalowda wrote:
         | This is what I get: https://imgur.com/a/dusADjq
         | 
         | Picture of Schwarznegger under "Robert Winley" for some reason,
         | but that's it.
         | 
         | Also if you scroll down a bit more it shows not just Edward
         | Furlong as John Connor, but also Dalton Abbott, Michael
         | Edwards, and Marius Claren.
         | 
         | Abbott and Edwards are "Old John Connor" and "Infant John
         | Connor" on imdb, and Marius Claren is the guy who does the
         | voice of Connor in the German dub. I guess it's "correct" for
         | some value of "correct", but also not really.
         | 
         | tl;dr: don't trust these google instant preview thingies it
         | seems.
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | I did the same search for 1 and 3 and he doesn't show up there
       | either.
        
       | 988747 wrote:
       | How about EU-issued "right to be forgotten"? Is it possible that
       | Arnie requested being removed from all the search results?
        
         | premaljhaveri wrote:
         | CCPA Sounds right - even searching for his name results in a
         | different header of his son Patrick
         | https://www.google.com/search?q=arnold+schwarzenegger
        
         | jasode wrote:
         | He's missing from seemingly any search results about movies
         | when query string is _" cast of <MOVIE>"_
         | 
         | But he's there when searching "Mr Olympia 1970s" :
         | https://www.google.com/search?q=mr+olympia+1970s
         | 
         | So maybe not RTBF.
        
       | extasia wrote:
       | My initial guess is that a crude pattern match for the n word
       | also filters his surname.
        
       | Hadriel wrote:
       | FYI many of these top results are Manually curated / created. I'd
       | wager that to be the reason.
        
         | extasia wrote:
         | And a manual curator would omit arnie for what reason?
        
           | staticman2 wrote:
           | If it's truly manual it could simply be a mistake.
        
             | layer8 wrote:
             | For all Schwarzenegger movies?
        
       | im3w1l wrote:
       | If you search for _arnold schwarzenegger_ , there are results
       | about him, but there is no infobox. So it seems he is gone from
       | the "clever parts" of search, but not from normal results.
       | Amusingly, one time I searched for arnold scharzenegger I got an
       | infobox about his son Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger, but
       | this was once-only thing, I did save a screenshot to prove it
       | though.
        
       | sschueller wrote:
       | Very interesting especially since he was the leading role in that
       | movie.
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | He doesn't appear for any of his movies when searching for the
         | cast, it's not just Terminator 2.
        
       | weinzierl wrote:
       | I tried the query in other search engines:
       | 
       | - Bing shows a similar carousel as Google at the top but here
       | Arnold is the first image.
       | 
       | - DuckDuckGo doesn't show a direct answer. First results are IMDb
       | and Wikipedia.
       | 
       | - Kagi is similar to DuckDuckGo, no direkt answer, IMDb and
       | Wikipedia first. Where it gets interesting is the third result.
       | It is a link to a Google query for the phrase: _" Why doesn't
       | Arnold Schwarzenegger show up in this query on Google?"_
        
         | spfzero wrote:
         | Are IMDb and Wikipedia not appropriate direct answers?
        
           | LanternLight83 wrote:
           | What GP means is that it's not inline, presented as a
           | carousel or info-box (usually with a source link) instead of
           | as a normal search result.
        
       | 404mm wrote:
       | Could it be possibly because of some badly written word filter?
       | I'm hinting at the second part of his last name. The extra "g" is
       | there because that's how it's spelled in German language, and
       | yes, the translation is what you would guess.
        
         | Pigalowda wrote:
         | Schwarz is black?
         | 
         | Google says:
         | 
         | From Schwarzenegg + -er, literally "someone from Schwarzenegg",
         | referring to either of two places in Switzerland and Austria,
         | from schwarz ("black") + Egg ("ridge"), cognate with Ecke.
        
           | ImpressiveWebs wrote:
           | He was on Letterman in the 1980s and said his name means
           | "black plowman".
        
           | subpixel wrote:
           | While true, it's also true that "neger" is the German word
           | for "negro" and the last time I was in Bavaria also a certain
           | type of dark chocolate covered donut. I'm not sure if the
           | word is considered outmoded or politically incorrect as it is
           | in English.
        
             | kybernetyk wrote:
             | >I'm not sure if the word is considered outmoded or
             | politically incorrect as it is in English.
             | 
             | It is. Very much so. It's the equivalent to the US
             | "n-word".
        
             | atoav wrote:
             | I can assure you that it is the German equivalent of the
             | N-word in most ways, using it is frowned upon and perceived
             | as a racial slur (although this hasn't been the case few
             | decades below still). But people who use it nowadays are
             | either very old or racists.
             | 
             | The egg in Arnolds name is probably a Styrian-Austrian
             | dialect variation of "Eck" which translates to "corner". In
             | Austria there are many places ending in this egg (sometimes
             | also only with a single "g").
             | 
             | So his literal name might describe somebody coming from a
             | place called "Schwarzenegg". And Schwarzenegg would be
             | literally "Black-Corner".
        
           | mc32 wrote:
           | It can also mean harrow --someone who harrows land.
        
       | GeoAtreides wrote:
       | Maybe the ML powering google is experiencing a Scunthorpe hiccup
        
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