Google autocomplete and bias?

I’ve taken screenshots of some further play with Google autocomplete below… are existing views and biases being reproduced in the suggested terms, or is it more complex than that (see Noble 2018)?

I wonder what the results might be if I was to search these terms from a different location (see Kitchin (2017: 21) and Mahnke and Uprichard (2014))?

'Why is detroit...' Google autocomplete
‘Why is detroit…’ Google autocomplete
'Why is england...' Google autocomplete
‘Why is england…’ Google autocomplete
'Why is britain...' Google autocomplete
‘Why is britain…’ Google autocomplete

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