Google Search Feature Determines The Sexuality Of (Most) Celebrities

Can Google get much gayer? They're already in hot water with former U.S. Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum for refusing to sever his name from a filthy sexual term that sex columnist and gay activist Dan Savage created especially for him in honor of Santorum's anti-gay rhetoric.

And earlier this year the Google search page went rainbow in honor of Pride month (though some LGBT people felt the rainbow wasn't prominent enough).

But a new feature that allows users to learn the sexuality of celebrities based on a synthesizing of articles found by the search engine takes things to a new level.

Using Google's gaydar is easy. You just type "is [name of suspected celebrity here] gay (or bi or straight)?" into the search box and Google will its "best guess" based on all of the available information (in the form of relevant websites) and present its findings. While it seems to work for many straight and out celebrities, controversial celebrities who have been accused of hiding in the closet don't seem to be fair game for the company's A.I. gaydar.

But who cares? We don't need a computer to tell us which leading men and women are engaging in same-sex loving -- we've got our own perfectly tuned human gaydar for that.

Comments

[itdoesntmatter]

10:41 PM on 09/29/2011

My Google doesn't do this. Tried several celebs on multiple browsers, signed into Google and not. Nothing.

[slobone]

10:38 PM on 09/29/2011

RIP (or DOA?)

As of 9 PM CDT Thursday, it looks like Google has dropped this feature. None of the searches I tried earlier produce any "Google Gaydar" results.

[Rob Cypher]

09:12 PM on 09/29/2011

None of these even seem to work in Google. Did they disable it or something?

[petermax]

07:03 PM on 09/29/2011

Marcus bachmann

[CoronaDischarge]

06:09 PM on 09/29/2011

Says Barney Franck is, and Lindsay Lohan is bi, but is silent on Rick Perry, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum.

[mitchpeter]

02:15 PM on 09/29/2011

They'll never catch me!
www.gaynycdad.com

[Scott Stevenson]

12:26 PM on 09/29/2011

"Can Google get much gayer?" Can the author of this article be more offensive?

[Left Jab 123]

11:55 AM on 09/29/2011

With all the money Google is throwing at anyone or anything with an (R) after it Google is now the tool of both the GOP and the RNC - Sorry fox, you're #2 now - Try harder...

[pfz]

11:47 AM on 09/29/2011

this doesn't work, wonder if google took it down.

[lacrosselamore]

02:31 PM on 09/29/2011

They will after they are sued several times.

[DaniFoxy]

09:33 AM on 09/29/2011

DAMN! This doesn't work at all for me. Google, you tease!

[Michael Lindley]

01:55 AM on 09/29/2011

Yawn.

[WiltonDiary]

11:23 AM on 09/29/2011

It's 2011 and this reminds be of 1951!

[whitakerpoc1]

01:05 AM on 09/29/2011

Santorum gets what he deserves... keep it up Google

[NovaNardis]

12:28 AM on 09/29/2011

This doesn't work for me.

[Ravenlea]

12:27 AM on 09/29/2011

Why do we care?

[General Public]

11:54 PM on 09/28/2011

I have tried this feature. It does not work. For instance, Tom Cruise is a very famous celebrity, mentioned on many webpages, yet when I do a Google search on "is tom cruise gay", it doesn't know the answer. The number of celebrities where it lists a result at all us very small. I have found results for just a small percentage of queries on Google: "is rosie o'donnell gay", "is lindsay lohan gay", "is michael jackson gay", "is marcus bachmann gay", "is ellen degeneres gay", "is barney frank gay", "is rachel maddow gay", "is ricky martin gay", "is neil patrick harris gay", "is oprah winfrey gay"... but for MOST celebrities it doesn't say anything at all. If you search on something like "is anderson cooper gay" or "is rick perry gay" or "is george w. bush gay" or "is barack obama gay" or "is adolf hitler gay" or "is larry craig gay" or "is lady gaga gay" or "is richard simmons gay" or "is daniel tosh gay" or "is mark foley gay" or "is angelina jolie gay" or "is eminem gay" you don't get an answer from Google. I think their algorithm is busted. It only gives an answer a small percentage of the time.

[MissTake1989]

05:40 AM on 09/29/2011

Google knows about Tom. It just doesn't need the legal trouble.

[WiltonDiary]

11:24 AM on 09/29/2011

That is also why Google supports and donates Mi$$ions to Conservative causes.

[Mrsbean54]

08:07 AM on 09/29/2011

LOL it didn't have an answer for Richard Simmons??

To be fair, though, this is the stupidest use for Google I've seen yet...the only logical need to Google a person's sexuality is if you could possibly date them, and sorry ladies....Tom Cruise is never gonna happen.

[WiltonDiary]

11:27 AM on 09/29/2011

Do you really need to know about Richard Simmons his sexual preference?

That is one queen who has been an open secret for 80 years, kinda like Liberace do you really think they are gay?

Anyone who has to Google Richard Simmons to find out if he's gay has other issues.