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What Happens When Google Doesn’t Think You’re A Human</h1><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 11px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;background-color:transparent;line-height:23px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;padding-right:5px!important">
<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;background-color:transparent;font-family:ProximaNovaSemibold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Elaine Yellow Horse wanted to use Google+ for business.</span> She only ran into one problem: Google wouldn’t recognize her name.<span class="" style="margin:4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:10px;background-color:transparent;display:block;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.02em;color:rgb(153,153,153)">posted on March 6, 2014 at 2:22pm EST</span></p>
Joe Flood</div><div class="gmail_default">BuzzFeed Contributor</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Here are some facts about Elaine Yellow Horse, who is a real person:</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
• She is a resident of the town of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
• She is a student at Oglala Lakota College, and a co-captain of the school’s <a href="http://lastrealindians.com/oglala-lakota-college-wins-four-national-championship-trophies-in-archery-by-joe-flood/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,119,238);text-decoration:none">national championship archery team</a>. (Disclosure: I’m the coach of that team.)</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">• She works 48-hour shifts as an EMT and helps to run a small mail-order coffee company to help pay for college.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">• She is a popular poster of funny little life observations on Facebook.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">• She’s even been featured on BuzzFeed before, giving her thoughts on the controversy surrounding the <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/how-the-redskins-debate-goes-over-on-an-actual-indian-reserv" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,119,238);text-decoration:none">Washington Redskins’ name</a>.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It’s easy enough to prove any of these facts simply by Googling Yellow Horse’s name, and to reach the irrefutable conclusion that Elaine Yellow Horse is, in fact, a real, 29-year-old person.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:6px 0px 12px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:23px;font-family:ProximaNovaRegular,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And yet Google, the company that knows more about us than any other company in the world, last month disagreed.</p>
Access full article below: </div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/what-happens-when-google-doesnt-think-youre-a-human">http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/what-happens-when-google-doesnt-think-youre-a-human</a><br>
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