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What people want (according to Google Suggest)
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Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)
#42Google says they "apply a narrow set of removal policies for pornography, violence, and hate speech." What seems incongruous with this to me is that they also filter many (non-explicit) gay-related searches. For example, typing "is my son" yields: is my son autistic? is my son smoking pot? is my son ready for kindergarten? is my son gifted? Doing a google trends search for these four phrases along with "is my son gay…
I think they filter results that aren't themselves hate speech but that have hate speech pointing at them or contained within the SERP. I could see anti-gay sites that are considered hate speech having content about "Is my son gay" and that contaminating the suggestion results.
If that's the case, it should be fixed by tweak in the ranking algorithm (rank informative sites higher than junk filled with hate), not by filtering out query suggestions.
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#43At first I thought the numbers were number of searches, but they're not. For example, according to AdWords, "how can i be on made" is searched less than 10 times a month globally. The numbers shown are number of results.
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#44This is a little scary ...
Here are the current Google Suggest phrases on Google Canada for 'how can I':
how can i kill my baby
how can i make my breasts bigger
how can i lose weight fast
how can i lose 10 pounds in a week
how can i watch hulu in canada
how can i get my boyfriend hard
how can i get pregnant
how can i keep from singing lyrics
how can i download youtube videos
how can i tell if i am pregnant
I often use the search term 'how can i ...', and I've noticed the 'how can i kill my baby' search phrase many times over about the past 6 months. It comes and goes from the Suggest list. Very strange.
EDIT: formatting
Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)
#45This post reminded me how I always was kidding on my coworkers and friends. When working both on the same PC and needed to download some utility. I was going to Google homepage and typing:
"Dear Google, please help me. I looking for some information regarding this utility program, called XYZ. Do you, by any chance, know where from I can download it? Thank you very much in advance!"
Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they filter results that aren't themselves hate speech but that have hate speech pointing at them or contained within the SERP. I could see anti-gay sites that are considered hate speech having content about "Is my son gay" and that contaminating the suggestion results.
If that's the case, it should be fixed by tweak in the ranking algorithm (rank informative sites higher than junk filled with hate), not by filtering out query suggestions.
That's a very dangerous line to cross - ranking search results by, essentialy, ideology?
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#47It's nice to share the list of sorted results -- but why on Scribd in print format?
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#48At first I thought the numbers were number of searches, but they're not. For example, according to AdWords, "how can i be on made" is searched less than 10 times a month globally. The numbers shown are number of results.
looking at the xml on the url he is using for this experiment, the tag for the number is "num_queries" which makes me think that it is, in fact, the number of queries and not the results.
view-source:http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=how%2...
Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)
#49This is a little scary ... Here are the current Google Suggest phrases on Google Canada for 'how can I': how can i kill my baby how can i make my breasts bigger how can i lose weight fast how can i lose 10 pounds in a week how can i watch hulu in canada how can i get my boyfriend hard how can i get pregnant how can i keep from singing lyrics how can i download youtube videos how can i tell if i am pregnant I often us…
If the Canucks are smart, that "how can I kill my baby?" search term is a honey pot.
Re: What people want (according to Google Suggest)
#50Google says they "apply a narrow set of removal policies for pornography, violence, and hate speech." What seems incongruous with this to me is that they also filter many (non-explicit) gay-related searches. For example, typing "is my son" yields: is my son autistic? is my son smoking pot? is my son ready for kindergarten? is my son gifted? Doing a google trends search for these four phrases along with "is my son gay…
Yeah, but the removal policies are regarding the suggest functionality, not the actual search engine, so I don't think this can be considered censorship to any extent.
Like even if a lot of people were searching it, you might not want to be inadvertently suggesting morally questionable queries to people who don't want to see them.
As such, it seems like they err on the side of caution with it. Like there are no suggestions for the word "fuck" despite the fact that it is a wildly popular query.
Their algorithm probably just ends up tagging "is my son gay" as a query that people can enter on their own if they want to search it.