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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"

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Another reason why I Google with the Bing http://img.skitch.com/20100105-f2xhs1pm1bmi1wt24cng2hddyw.jp... Cause everyone knows "Islam is the light baby doll"

I would assume they put things in the list on a trial basis otherwise they wouldn't be able to respond quickly to current events.

Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"

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post #29

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Yes, fix the algorithm by requiring a higher cutoff for what is shown.

Why tune the algorithm in a way that would make the service less useful just because some people are sensitive? I guarantee you I've been helped by google suggestions that occur less frequency on the web than, say, "islam is false" (which, judging from other religions, would be suggested if it were not blocked).

What about racist suggestions?

Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"

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post #12

So much for letting the algorithms rule their results. They could at least be somewhat equal about it and do the same thing about christianity and judaism, but then again, they know that nobody is going to chop someone's head off when they see that the first result for "christianity is" is "christianity is bullshit ". How long is the civilized world going submit to this insanity? When is enough, enough?

It's tough to get every case of this and still have an autosuggest. They also got "muslims are" in the block list, but even then "muslims can" returns "muslims can not be trusted" within the top couple results.

Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"

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post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why tune the algorithm in a way that would make the service less useful just because some people are sensitive? I guarantee you I've been helped by google suggestions that occur less frequency on the web than, say, "islam is false" (which, judging from other religions, would be suggested if it were not blocked).

What about racist suggestions?

How does a frequency cutoff filter out racist suggestions? Or were you referring to another sort of automatic cutoff?

NB. Interestingly, "christians are" and "atheists are" don't return any results either.

Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"

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post #12

So much for letting the algorithms rule their results. They could at least be somewhat equal about it and do the same thing about christianity and judaism, but then again, they know that nobody is going to chop someone's head off when they see that the first result for "christianity is" is "christianity is bullshit ". How long is the civilized world going submit to this insanity? When is enough, enough?

Define "algorithm" because it looks like they still are letting algorithms rule results, they've just changed the algorithm. That seems like a pretty good idea to me, because if by 'algorithms rule results' you mean "page rank as released on Google 1.0", I'd be seeing some pretty crappy search results.

Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about racist suggestions?

How does a frequency cutoff filter out racist suggestions? Or were you referring to another sort of automatic cutoff? NB. Interestingly, "christians are" and "atheists are" don't return any results either.

I suspect it would filter out much of what is offensive. But you need to try it and see.

Re: Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"

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post #34

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Which is grammatically questionable.

ok ok, even muslism is then.

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.
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