Officials for Google have apologized after the translation services offered on the search engine giant reportedly suggested a series of anti-gay slurs in response to a searches on “gay” and “homosexual.”
Screenshots of attempts to translate terms for “gay” from Spanish, French and Portuguese into English have appeared on a number of media outlets, including the Daily Mail, Pink News and Queerty. The more eyebrow-raising suggestions for “el homosexual” include “poof,” “faggot” and “fagot.”
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After the slur was removed, a spokeswoman for Google told local news station ABC 13 that users could edit maps, and while she didn’t know who had added the slur, she added that the company would continue investigating the incident.
