Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
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Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
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Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#2Interestingly, 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 you wonder what the completion list had been popping up before they blocked it, eh?
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#3There's been a popular trend of posting screenshots from Google search recommendations over the past few months; I wouldn't be surprised if one of those shots made it to Google Headquarters (though I'm certainly surprised they didn't notice it sooner!).
Also shame on PZ Meyers for yoinking that article from atheists.org.
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#4There's been a popular trend of posting screenshots from Google search recommendations over the past few months; I wouldn't be surprised if one of those shots made it to Google Headquarters (though I'm certainly surprised they didn't notice it sooner!). Also shame on PZ Meyers for yoinking that article from atheists.org.
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Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#5Everyone 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?
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#6Note: to replicate the stated behaviour, you might need to type in the space, e.g. "Judaism is " rather than "Judaism is".
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#7There's been a popular trend of posting screenshots from Google search recommendations over the past few months; I wouldn't be surprised if one of those shots made it to Google Headquarters (though I'm certainly surprised they didn't notice it sooner!). Also shame on PZ Meyers for yoinking that article from atheists.org.
There's actually an entire site devoted to it, in the style of FML/IMMD/etc.: http://autocompleteme.com/
(Sorry if I just wasted anyone's evening!)
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#8Maybe it's just a bug? Haven't you found phrases which you thought were very popular and yet couldn't find Google recommendations for them?
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#9Everyone 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?
Everyone knows exactly why
Sure, but did you know that they were doing it at all? I didn't until today.
Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
#10Interestingly, 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.