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Eh? My point was that you wouldn't necessarily expect them to have thought of it. They certainly won't have thought of this bizarre misspelling.
Fair enough, I am unfamiliar with the misspellings. Musli(s)m sounds perfectly normal to me as a non-native speaker of the English language, and for a bunch of other people on the internet for that matter hence the suggestions of google.
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It doesn't exactly offend me; I just find it interesting and potentially troubling. It's part of a trend of going out of the way to avoid offending Muslims specifically. I fear that things like Ireland's new blasphemy law, which came into force a few days ago, are the result of this trend. (Of course, it applies to mockery of all religions; in the West at least one can hardly get a law passed outlawing just mockery o…
If we only respect religions that cut off our heads, eventually those will be the religions that rule us.
Everyone knows exactly why they don't make search recommendations, and is there really anything we can say about it that won't devolve into trolling, flaming, and deliberate misunderstanding?
I don't know what your theory is ("everyone knows exactly why"), but I'll put forth my thesis. 1) Autosuggestions are a sample of the most frequent phrases google users type in 2) This autosuggest list is analyzed statistically and a sentiment score established ranging from 0 (friendly) through 1 (hateful). 3) If the autosuggest list statistics reveal a certain characteristic (e.g. all hateful, or very controversial,…
Everyone knows exactly why they don't make search recommendations, and is there really anything we can say about it that won't devolve into trolling, flaming, and deliberate misunderstanding?
I don't know what your theory is ("everyone knows exactly why"), but I'll put forth my thesis. 1) Autosuggestions are a sample of the most frequent phrases google users type in 2) This autosuggest list is analyzed statistically and a sentiment score established ranging from 0 (friendly) through 1 (hateful). 3) If the autosuggest list statistics reveal a certain characteristic (e.g. all hateful, or very controversial,…
what is the algorithm?
Perhaps there simply are not enough queries for "Islam is" in your region.
Everyone knows exactly why they don't make search recommendations, and is there really anything we can say about it that won't devolve into trolling, flaming, and deliberate misunderstanding?
I don't know what your theory is ("everyone knows exactly why"), but I'll put forth my thesis. 1) Autosuggestions are a sample of the most frequent phrases google users type in 2) This autosuggest list is analyzed statistically and a sentiment score established ranging from 0 (friendly) through 1 (hateful). 3) If the autosuggest list statistics reveal a certain characteristic (e.g. all hateful, or very controversial,…
Another argument is that typing in "Islam i[letter]" where [letter] is some common consonant usually returns suggestions.
Interestingly, the same is not true for Islam was ("founded", "founded by", "spread by the sword") or Muhammad is ("a false prophet", "satan", "the antichrist") or was ("born and raised in", "born", "illiterate"), or Allah is ("satan", "great", "not obliged") or was (which, intriguingly, has just a single suggestion, "a moon god"). I'm actually having a hard time finding anything else that is similarly blocked. Makes…
It's not that hard to find other blocked terms. Just try something that's socially sensitive or offensive. Such as 'n----rs are ' or even 'chinese are ' (note: 'swedish are ' works). I wouldn't be very surprised if they had some sort of algorithm to generate the blacklisted terms as opposed to manually cherrypicking them. We're talking about Google here.
Everyone knows exactly why they don't make search recommendations, and is there really anything we can say about it that won't devolve into trolling, flaming, and deliberate misunderstanding?
Google is just being wise here. Why would they risk offending people who are already offended?
Not many would be offended when the completion suggests "niggers are.." - it is a thing of past; "jews are.." - they are sane and educated enough not to go batshit; "indians are.." - pretty well integrated with the western society. Muslims are neither that educated nor integrated well with the western world and we have a stinking situation in hand like occupied countries and a threat of having more occupied countries.
The minute after Google suggests completions about Islam there will be forward mails like "GOOGLE IS RUN BY JEWS AND THEY HUMILIATE US ALL!!!1". It is an effective bit of propoganda and there's a possibility of causing a loss of market share. And mind you this is the least of what could happen. So, again, why would they even risk it at all?
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Let's hope someone at Google is reading this and gets this fixed PRONTO. It is grounds for boycotting the service IMHO.
Huh? Since when common sense, avoiding trouble and trying not to offend socially sensitive groups count as 'grounds for boycotting'?