The search for "three white teenagers" produced smiling and happy generic images of white teenagers, while the search for "three black teenagers" produced some generic happy images too – alongside far too many mug shots and what could be perceived as negative images of black teenagers.
Tragos, who lives in L.A. and has worked in film, wrote, directed and produced "Smile Pretty," which has already been recognized as contributing to the art of documentary making.
Discounts do produce smiles, though, as was evident one recent morning at the Manhattan business center.
Two Swiss automakers, Rinspeed and Sbarro, had fun with two concepts intended to produce smiles, if not buyers.
"I am pushing very hard to ensure our coaches are producing smiles through the grassroots game so that the kids develop a love of the ball, a love of the game and that they are engaged with football in a really positive way".
Inger shared with me one example: in the early years of her business, when something went wrong, she and her staff would say to each other, "Houston, we have a problem". Over time, that got shortened to, ""We have a Houston" - and saying that now always produces smiles and lightens the atmosphere for everyone, freeing their brains to turn to problem-solving.
But the sun isn't the only thing producing smiles.
They are producing "Smile," a 1980s Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman musical that focuses on edgy drama behind the glitz of the fictional Young American Miss contest.
He hardly produced any smiles at all – just the occasional wry half-smile of self-congratulation when he thought he'd notched up another point in his favour.
