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Google Blocking Negative Search Recommendations On Islam – Why?

By Alex Wilhelm Follow Alex Wilhelm on twitter on January 5th, 2010

Update – See the latest from Google here.

Religion always causes a stir when it is debated, and Google seems to know it. Google is not taking a fair approach to the way that it handles searches for different religions.

When you search for the major religions of the world, the monotheistic faiths for example, Google serves up suggestions for the search “Christianity is” such as, “a lie,” or false.” Try it on a a number of faiths, and then Islam.

Notice any difference?

Google is systematically blocking, it seems, all search suggestions for Islam. Why? To remove the chance of an adherent of the faith from being offended by a perhaps severe search suggestion? Why not treat all search terms equally?

Given the complete lack of suggestions, not just terms that could be perceived as negative, it seems that Google is covering its, well, behind.

Don’t want to do all the leg work? Check the image after the jump.

A thank you to the Atheism sub-Reddit for finding this. Original post here.

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Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm is a Chicago-based technology blogger and entrepreneur. He has worked for a number of technology companies in recent years, and has a particular interest in watching the social web monetize. Follow Alex on Twitter, or on Facebook. You can reach Alex via email at alex@thenextweb.com

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  1. Hak says January 05, 2010
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    Sorry but that is not correct .

  2. Danny Sullivan says January 05, 2010
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    Interesting.

    islam bul..

    Suggests “islam bullshit,” so if they are editing things (which they typically deny), they’re not getting everything.

    “muslim” is brings up “muslim is wrong”

    “muhammad is” bring us things about him being satan, a false prophet and other negative comments.

    I wonder if “islam is” in non-English languages might trigger suggestions while other religions might not. These are supposedly driven by what people search on.

    • Alex Wilhelm says January 05, 2010
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      Islam brings up *nothing*? Not likely. Google has 110 million pages in its index on Islam. Do a search, and look.

      No search recomendations, really?

      • jon says January 06, 2010
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        WRONG!

        It’s not when you hit the search button. It’s the list of recommended that pops up as you type words in the text field.

    • Anonymous says June 11, 2010
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      I have to give u my insight…. think of the diversity of the wi fi world we live in, as soon as the connection is linkeed a page is drawn up and there are advertisements of sex, no I have no problem with sex I am a heterosexual, but my point is there is no control and this an false hood of an order that we r driven into. Now, I have had the luxury to travel abroad from Baltimore, Maryland an to the far east and the carribean just to mention few places the slandring of religions is not only towards muslims is rather in an attack to any form of monotheistic belief. go ahead try it google is operated in every country from wht i believe and they run through their own network this is an successful attempt seduce and basicallymislead the people away from the truth. I googled jesus and u will not imagine the slandering and out right BULL that is writtten and vivdly described as the work ofthe devil. Now u readers and writers read this carefully w are going downwards and being driven by the evil one which we allow to come in between us and our prayers or loved ones simply ur clean thought. We are under influence daily and the internet ha a connection to almost everyperson in the world. I will say it is a tool that is being misused and misguiding adn will continue to be there because no one will want tolose the business aspect , however the young minds and those that are believers of the news they see and hear will continually be mis led. I am a believer of one god ALLAH and prophet muhammad peace be upon him is his last messenger.
      I would like to mention jesus here. Jesus christ, a muslim proudly believes that he was not killed and that he was not caused any pain ONLY because our creator did not wish to, and that he rose his soul in brink of the entire CONSPIRACY during the governing of the TEMPLARS, which by the way if one was a god fearing man would ask to himself how may people really stoood up and asked for vengence rather why was he being killed, its a sincere lie to the truth. Be careful what you believe because u might be following the evil dude. PLUS MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT JESUS WILL RETURN TO COMPLETE HIS TIME AS A HUMAN AND PUT AN END TO THE ANTICHRIST. I didnt know all of this either siince my history as an american has been through the private schools of jezuits, protestants etc.. This made me want to know more about other religions and especially ISLAM. best of luck to you on the search for the truth
      -a sunni muslim
      hussain

  3. Faramarz says January 05, 2010
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    Don’t get your panties in a bunch.. try Muslim instead ;)

    http://bit.ly/5popQ8

    • Alex Wilhelm says January 05, 2010
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      That hardly excuses the exclusion of Islam.

      • Faramarz says January 05, 2010
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        Who said they’re excluding? have you reached to Google for comment?

        Go ahead, make a page titled ‘Islam is Bullshit’ and I’ll be the first to link back to ya. haha

        • Alex Wilhelm says January 05, 2010
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          How could they not be excluding? Either:
          A: Google is horribly broken and this is evidence of that.

          or

          B: They seem to be tampering with results.

          Your call, I made mine.

          • Danny Sullivan says January 05, 2010

            Google is horribly broken. That’s my call. And they do such a piss poor job explaining why these types of things happen (sometimes not even trying at all) that it’s easier to believe B, that they’re tampering with search suggestions.

          • Alex Wilhelm says January 05, 2010

            Hey Danny,

            That strikes me as very odd, given that is just happens that the single religion that has been the most vocal and violent in the last few years in regards to free speech is removed. It is just too convenient.

          • Danny Sullivan says January 05, 2010

            Alex, search for “Climategate: Just How Popular Is It, According To Google?” and you’ll see a story I covered about Google Suggest last month.

            Many people are convinced that Google messed with the suggestions for that. Google was adamant they did not. I still believe they didn’t. I also can only tell you from covering Google over the years that things like this are far more likely to be because they are indeed screw ups than that they are intentionally aiming to do so.

            It is totally weird, I agree. But it would also be totally weird for them to do, because they effectively anger many other religions to just please one.

            I’ll see if I can find out more, however.

          • Alex Wilhelm says January 05, 2010

            Great post, but I still wonder at the complete lack of suggestions. In your post, you rightly synthesize the tampering of suggestions, or lack thereof, *when there were suggestions.*

            Why are there none? I am still adamantly curious about that.

            Would love to know if you find anything.

          • mj says January 05, 2010

            Quote Alex “single religion that has been the most vocal and violent” are you so sure about that statement.

            before you make silly statements about a whole religion please try to research a bit about what are its teachings instead of quoting yourself a few extremists who happen to use religion as their banner.

          • Alex Wilhelm says January 05, 2010

            In regards to free speech I am.

          • Jools Chadwick says January 07, 2010

            Google is broken. It doesn’t block negative suggestions, it blocks all suggestions. It doesn’t fail for just one religion. Islam is simply the only major religion is fails for. “Jainism is” fails even though at has 600,000 results. “Americans are” fails even though it has nearly 95 million results. It fails for any nationality, even though they have plenty of results. There are plenty of examples that don’t work. It’s not a perfect service.

  4. Muhammad Panji says January 05, 2010
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    What’s wrong with you guys? blocking negative search is good.

    just ask google to do the same for christianity, judaism, and all negative search related to religion.

    • Júlio Santos says January 05, 2010
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      “Negative”? And who gets to decide what “negative” is? Should google not index any sites concerning death or pain of any sorts? Please.

      • Anand says January 05, 2010
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        We get to decide…People are born with a brain, right?

        Michelle Obama’s “chimpanzee” pic was offensive. There was nothing wrong in removing it. So is anything that can seemingly hurt sensibilities.

        Of course, in matters where there are two points of view, say the Palestinian or Kashmir issue could remain to show the two perspectives..But for websites built on blind hate, there is no reason Google should stop..

    • Júlio Santos says January 05, 2010
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      Also, since when is blocking anything good? The Middle Ages called, they want the inquisition back.

    • giantslor says January 05, 2010
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      1. Blocking negative search, or any search, is bad.

      2. Asking Google to block recommendations for other religions would be futile. Other religious adherents don’t kill and blow up their critics.

      BTW, Islam is bull$hit. (So is every religion.)

  5. another point says January 05, 2010
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    This same discrepancy works if you try the following:

    Sergey Brin is
    (nothing shows up)

    Larry Page is
    (nothing shows up)

    Bill Gates is
    (the auto suggest speaks for itself)

    Impartiality is a myth.

  6. Danny Sullivan says January 05, 2010
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    Sure, so when you type Google is… you get:

    watching you
    making us stupid
    the devil

    Clearly they’re not being impartial.

    gmail is … creepy, by the way

    Alternatively, when you start finding these odd cases where Something Is … doesn’t bring up anything, it pretty much screams out that the number of queries for Something Is + other words is not hitting a particular threshold to be shown in Google Suggest.

    That makes much more sense than the idea that Google has a list of “never show is suggestions” for that includes things like Larry Page and Islam, not to mention an additional list that insists they not suggest Climategate in queries that start Climate…

    • another point says January 05, 2010
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      Danny, your point is well taken and I generally agree such weird inconsistencies are technical glitches rather than manually altered. Earlier, I was just thinking about how often news networks and blogs use the phrase “Islam is…” and just found the threshold argument hard to believe as a coincidence.

      In fact, when I just checked “Muslims are”(more popular sentence starter) nothing comes up again. In fairness, Bing does not auto suggest for “Muslims are” either, but does auto suggest for “Islam is.”

      …so, maybe technical in the end but rather interesting.. Thanks for the follow-up Danny.

    • Bashar says January 05, 2010
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      That might be a logical explanation, especially that “Sergey Bring Is” gives just 391,000 results, while “Bill Gates is” gives 2,440,000 results. However when the search for “Islam Is *” gives 22,600,000 results, I’d still be amazed Google does not suggest any completion. and when you search for “Islam is violent”, this gives 5,160,000, now this must be enough for a suggestion I say. And I’m a muslim, and would hate to hear this.

      But truth is, I still see it weird that one of world’s most popular religions doesn’t have a suggestion when you search for what it is. I can’t judge it’s intentional, perhaps one of Google’s weird behaviors. But if it is, then it’s perhaps Google wants to avoid unnecessary conspiracy theories from Muslim world. There is a tendency over here to turn everything into conspiracy, some people actually believe YouTube intentionally places porn videos as recommended between your regular ones.

      Silly I know, but it’s the truth. And if one guy spots it, and starts spreading rumors Google thinks “Islam Is …”, then half the Arab world will take it for granted and start switching to some other search engine. Unwanted headache perhaps for Google over some suggestions.

    • tinyfrog says January 07, 2010
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      “Islam is” returns *no* auto-completion results, but the phrase (with quotes) returns 3,320,000 results.

      “Christianity is” returns completion results, but the phrase (with quotes) returns 2,480,000 results.

      “Atheism is” returns completion results, but the phrase (with quotes) returns 526,000 results.

  7. Buffet says January 05, 2010
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    I tried “Buddhism is…” “Hinduism is…” “Judaism is…” and everywhere I could see negative search suggestions. Only Islam seems to be spared. Curious as to how this is happening.

  8. Oren S. says January 05, 2010
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    I’ve tried to run the same searches in Hebrew (my native language, being Jewish). It’s hard to do the test since in Hebrew you don’t need the “is” in such a sentance. You just type “Islam” or “Jusaism” and the suggestions should complete the setance for you.
    However, what i did find out was that suggestions popped for ALL major religions, including Islam. Furthermore, the only SOMEWHAT negative suggestion that came up was for Islam. It was “Islam extreme”, the equivalent in Hebrew for “Islam is extreme” or “extreme Islam”.

    So far for “hard” evidence, now for my two-cents worth… as much as i’d love this to be true (i would write about it in my Israeli Blog and get TONS of attention) i find it hard to believe it was done deliberately. The way these things usualy work is: FIRST you publish something that muslims perceive as offensive. Then they get all worked up about it. Then you either appologize or suffer the consequences… I’ve never heard of any muslim preacher getting angry at google suggestions and it seems weird that they would take such a hursh (and yet partially implemented) preemptive step.
    Then again, both Google and Yahoo (and maybe Microsoft too) seem to be censoring results for China, so who knows…

  9. BobJones says January 05, 2010
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    Google also blocks any suggested related to apartheid. This is most likely related to the phrase “Israeli apartheid” but this complete block of apartheid related suggestions also means that apartheid is never suggested in the South African context, which seems to be quite unhelpful.

    I wonder how both the Islam related suggestions and the apartheid related suggestions were blocked.

    • Oren S. says January 05, 2010
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      That is strange, because when i write apartheid in Heberew i DO get suggestions, although only one (“apartheid south africa”).
      So, either there is a conspiracy here (Google trying to convince Isrealis that our state is nor an apartheid state and the rest of the world that there is no such thing as apartheid at all) or it’s just a technical issue as was suggested above.
      BTW, since my search draws it’s suggestions from the Israeli itteration of google, my guess is the suggestions in each Google search are actualy LOCALY ADJUSTED so you get different suggestions in different states not because of censoreship but because that’s the way suggestions work.

  10. Ashley says January 05, 2010
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    Very interesting. I tried this myself. The first result (as posted above) when searching for “christianity is” comes up christianity is bullshit, and the list goes on. A quick search for “islam is” came up with islam-is.com is shut down for non-payment. A good chuckle for a Tuesday morning. Thanks for posting this link, it is interesting.

  11. Dave says January 05, 2010
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    In French, “Islam est” just comes up with one result: Islam est une secte. Not exactly damning.

  12. Paul says January 05, 2010
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    I can’t believe it… wow!

  13. Carlos says January 05, 2010
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    I have just tried it in portuguese (Brazil) and the only suggestion for islam is “islam is fundamentalist”, while for christianity it suggests “christianty is a farse” and “christianity is a religion”. For judaism it has no suggestions at all.

  14. Mike Cane says January 05, 2010
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    I did some tests of my own.

    Now Google Can’t Be Trusted To Be Google!
    http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/now-google-cant-be-trusted-to-be-google/

  15. Manish Ahuja says January 05, 2010
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    Being from this part of the globe (India) and having seen communal riots at a distance of less than ten feet as a kid; I’m rather happy Google is taking steps towards this. I’d rather appreciate if Google takes a step forward and implements this for all religion and religion based searches. Lets give fanatics one less reason to blow apart yet another iconic structure which would then cause grief to so many others at different levels

  16. Frank says January 05, 2010
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    The same is true for “heterosexuality is” and “homosexuallity is” … no negatives for hetero; but plenty for homo … is Google afraid of straight people too? Hahaha! I hope you are not suggesting that your screenshots are scientific proof of anything.

  17. r351574nc3 says January 05, 2010
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    You’re using the wrong search criteria. Although, this is correct, try instead “Muslim is “. Then, you start seeing the same as other religions. Why “muslim” instead of “islam”? It was just a snafu. Sorry. I know you all want to hate Google.

  18. trmf says January 06, 2010
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    Muslim is the truth but if u don’t try to find the truth U can’t find it.

    Please don’t make comment if U don’t know nothing about Muslim.

    • TurnipsRUs says January 08, 2010
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      “Muslim is the truth but if u don’t try to find the truth U can’t find it.”
      A Christian will say Jesus is the truth, the way, the light, Buddhists will tell us of Buddha, you cannot go around parading your “muslim is only truth!” if other religions can’t, well at least you haven’t looked at other religions in detail.

      “Please don’t make comment if U don’t know nothing about Muslim.”
      The comments address Google suggestions, Islam should not be immune/cuddled because the followers of the “religion of peace” end up going ballistic over any criticism. Like any other religion, Islam should not be immune to any criticism.

  19. DesScorp says January 06, 2010
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    Google’s management just doesn’t want to be beheaded or bombed. They’re taking the safe route.

  20. Ted says January 06, 2010
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    google.ca is nothing like this.
    Obama, your paranoid ruler has likely threatened Google to do his bidding because he is so afraid of truth.

  21. Ted says January 06, 2010
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    Also, I cannot get to google.com from here. Everytime I try, I am automatically redirected to google.ca.

    Your nation is being isolated by your anointed rulers.

  22. whatever says January 06, 2010
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    WOW, this is BAD!!!

    why must we all apologize our way to medieval times, are we so weakened as a people??

    are we ashamed of our judeo-christian roots? shame on you metrosexual soft brained relativists if so, did you all hate your parents that much – you by laziness reverse what they fought to secure for YOU!!

    yeah, Muhamed doesnt see the problem above I see

    Nor does Obama, but then he too is a DECEIVER. At least America, and the world, is catching on to his gig.

    • TurnipsRUs says January 08, 2010
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      “are we ashamed of our judeo-christian roots?”
      Witchburning, killing apostates, silencing critics? Why did you have to bring up the Judeo-Christian nonsense to begin with? Please, virtually every religion has a history tarred by fundies.

      “shame on you metrosexual soft brained relativists if so”
      I don’t see why you bring this up, complaining about not being able to see negative things about Islam does not make us “metrosexual”.

      “Nor does Obama, but then he too is a DECEIVER.”
      Welcome to the world of politics, where every politician is a deciever (or at least a vast majority of them), Obama, Bush the lot of them.

  23. Afarin Maleki-Raei says January 07, 2010
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    That is because Islam is the one and true way. Judaism and Christianity are two religions created to spread blood shed and terror. Islam is the answer and the solution to those two filthy, deranged religions.

    • TurnipsRUs says January 08, 2010
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      “That is because Islam is the one and true way.”
      So says every follower of their own religion

      “Judaism and Christianity are two religions created to spread blood shed and terror.”
      Islam is no different, there are other religions such as Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism which are not out to spread blood and terror.

      “Islam is the answer and the solution to those two filthy, deranged religions.”
      I would say NO religion is a solution to those THREE abrahamic religions.

      Jizya, death penalty for apostatsy, these are unacceptable things, not being able to criticise Islam, another thing that is unacceptable.

  24. Allen says January 07, 2010
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    Well they forgot to take care of their boy in the WH. Key in Obama is. The WH won’t be happy about that.

  25. Erick says January 07, 2010
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    It’s not something to waste time over, but it does make you wonder why Google does something like this. It’s not fair to all the other religions.

    Well in the end if Google decides to start censoring the internet too much people will switch over to different search engines destroying Googles monopoly on search results. This is probably a couple years away at least and Bing is still growing, so it all depends on what Google starts doing. Google does make life much easier though since you can find what you want on the internet in a few minutes.

  26. FeFe says January 07, 2010
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    Still nothing for “islam is.” Just like Google had nothing for Pearl Harbor Day.

  27. Dylan says January 07, 2010
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    The same “bug” exists for ‘Jesus is’ and ‘Mohamed is’ by the way.

  28. Johan Rune says January 11, 2010
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    Good reporting, still not “fixed”. I wanna follow this up.
    This issue was reported just now on Fox and Friends.

  29. DL says January 14, 2010
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    The people running Google are liars.
    It used to be agnostic but now it promotes a socio-political POV it thinks will benefit the company.

    Go blow it out your bum Google!! I am selling my stock.

    (Lets start a dump Google stock campaign)

  30. Anonymous says January 15, 2010
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    Simple, if google got pwned by fanatics there wont be a thing for you to search anymore.

  31. great one says January 16, 2010
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    Try bing.

    It puts the truth first on the list. ;)

  32. Arif says February 12, 2010
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    Islam is the one and only true religion, Moses(PUBH), Jesus(Pubh) never says thy belong Jew and Christianity and faith in submission to one God. But followers spread false identification to common people, hence Mohammad (Pubh) guided the people on right path from 4 th century itself, We proud to follow Islam faith and Submission to one God! Never trust Idol worships!

  33. Steve says February 15, 2010
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    I can vouch for that. Larry is an atheist – adamantly opposed to Chrisitianity. His religion is “diversity”. Larry grew up in Dearborn Michigan an area well known for it's muslim population. Undoubted influenced by his “friends”. I have no respect for him or his religion. His diversity is a diversity which excludes and it self is intolerant. His “religion” is also bisexualism. He believes that everyone must be bisexual. This is so a homosexual may have any other man or woman. Doing anything less is considered excluding a diversity. Knowing this of his thinking, it is of no surprise that the search results be biased.

  34. Steve says February 15, 2010
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    It does seem this is no longer true, however. As of 2/15/10 it does indeed show suggestions. Curious why the suggestions are so negative.

  35. Hawne says July 01, 2010
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    Testing it from France I get the following results with “Islam is” :
    - bullshit (1st place)
    - (some irrelevant and non-offensive suggestions)
    - nothing

    Apparently Google has upped its standards, or is only misbehaving in some countries.

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    [...] GOOGLE CENSORING ITSELF WHEN IT COMES TO ISLAM?On January 5th, thenextweb.com noticed some odd behaviour with Google when you type in search suggestions for various religions. [...]

  33. Google Has No Suggestions on What Islam Is « Hire Offshore designer, developer, internet marketing experts

    [...] Some are funny. Some are disturbing, and some are just weird. Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has discovered an interesting behavior in Google Suggest involving [...]

  34. Google Now Showing Suggestions for “Islam Is” @ WebNG Blog

    [...] Sullivan, one of the most influential voices in the search industry weighed in in the conversation, saying, “Google is horribly broken. That’s my call. And they do [...]

  35. Google Now Showing Suggestions for “Islam Is” @ WebNG Blog

    [...] Some are funny. Some are disturbing, and some are just weird. Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has discovered an interesting behavior in Google Suggest involving [...]

  36. Google Now Showing Suggestions for "Islam Is" - News: Everything-e

    [...] Some are funny. Some are disturbing, and some are just weird. Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has discovered an interesting behavior in Google Suggest involving religion. With most major religions, you will [...]

  37. Google Now Showing Suggestions for "Islam Is" | Rodney Payne

    [...] Some are funny. Some are disturbing, and some are just weird. Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has discovered an interesting behavior in Google Suggest involving [...]

  38. Google Now Showing Suggestions for "Islam Is" | Rodney Payne

    [...] Sullivan, one of the most influential voices in the search industry weighed in on the conversation, saying, "Google is horribly broken. That’s my call. And they do [...]

  39. Google Fixes “Bug” – Now Allowing Profane Search Suggestions On Islam

    [...] This • Tip Techmeme • Submit to Hackernews Share Early this month we brought you the news that Google search had a very interesting feature: when certain queries were input (surrounding the [...]

  40. Google Fixes “Bug” – Now Allowing Profane Search Suggestions On Islam | Google Reader | Юлиян Попов

    [...] this month we brought you the news that Google search had a very interesting feature: when certain queries were input (surrounding the [...]

  41. Is Google Evil? Part II: Search Neutrality « Blog Entry « Dr. Melissa Clouthier

    [...] people. Or strangely, no matter how you enter “Islam” into Google, you won’t get negative word [...]

  42. Is Google Evil? Part II: Search Neutrality | Right Wing News

    [...] to the Chinese people. Or strangely, no matter how you enter "Islam" into Google, you won't get negative word associations.Recently, Financial Times asked if Google was an evil monopoly (for what it's [...]

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