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What Happens When Google Doesn’t Think You’re A Human

Elaine Yellow Horse wanted to use Google+ for business. She only ran into
one problem: Google wouldn’t recognize her name.posted on March 6, 2014 at
2:22pm EST
Joe Flood
BuzzFeed Contributor

Here are some facts about Elaine Yellow Horse, who is a real person:

• She is a resident of the town of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation in South Dakota.

• She is a student at Oglala Lakota College, and a co-captain of the
school’s national championship archery
team<http://lastrealindians.com/oglala-lakota-college-wins-four-national-championship-trophies-in-archery-by-joe-flood/>.
(Disclosure: I’m the coach of that team.)

• She works 48-hour shifts as an EMT and helps to run a small mail-order
coffee company to help pay for college.

• She is a popular poster of funny little life observations on Facebook.

• She’s even been featured on BuzzFeed before, giving her thoughts on the
controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins’
name<http://www.buzzfeed.com/joeflood/how-the-redskins-debate-goes-over-on-an-actual-indian-reserv>
.

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.

And yet Google, the company that knows more about us than any other company
in the world, last month disagreed.
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