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Hi Sonia,
In what way are they different? Please provide screenshots.
This question, and variants of it, are commonly asked on this forum.
Usually there are simple explanations such as the search engine has interpreted the word white to mean the background color, not the person's color; but interpreted the word black to mean the person.
Regarding images, many of the results are from stock photo sites, and they categorize their content using themes (including sex, color, background color etc) that skew what you see in Google's Image Search. Note that your question used the word "happy", a concept often used as a category by stock photo sites, making it more likely the results will be full of stock photos.
Usually it's about the language used, the specific wording of the query. Google indexes the wording of other websites, so its results tend to reflect societal prejudices, or just mirror the way words are commonly used in real life.
Bear in mind that some of the people sharing this question on social media, are not doing so with the best of intentions, and know full well it's a trick of language. This question has repeatedly been asked by people who enjoy race baiting, but also by others who were tricked into being honestly outraged by a perceived racial bias.
One further thought: Google's automated algorithms are not immune from the same prejudices as the rest of society.
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