Early this month we brought you the news that Google search had a very interesting feature: when certain queries were input (surrounding the search term “Islam”), Google went blank on suggestions.
Searches for similar things around other faiths yielded different results. The search for “Christianity is” yields quite a few colorful, and some would claim blasphemous, suggestions. We called Google out on this, and with Danny Sullivan and some Digg promotion, seem to have reached them.
Google responded to Danny and us saying that it was a bug that they were working to get fixed. Whether or not that was true, it has now been corrected. Proof, from my computer just a moment ago:
Thank you for fixing this Google; bugs that give one faith an edge are bad bugs indeed.
Still no search suggestions for “Muslims are…”
There will always be “bugs” when the subject is something that has so much false negative propaganda attached to it…Islam, Muslim, Conservatives
Brad, The suggestions try to get rid of all hate towards people.
Try “Americans are”
or “I hate” vs “I love”
“We try to filter out suggestions that include pornographic terms, dirty words, and hate and violence terms. If you encounter a term that should not be suggested, please let us know by posting in the Google Web Search Help Forum.” see last paragraph: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/ans…
The suggestions try to get rid of all hate towards people.
Try “Americans are”
(easily insulted)
“Dutch are” (not easily insulted :)
or “I hate” vs “I love”
Google says: “We try to filter out suggestions that include pornographic terms, dirty words, and hate and violence terms. If you encounter a term that should not be suggested, please let us know by posting in the Google Web Search Help Forum.” see last paragraph: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/ans…
Islam without suggestion is google feature, Now google have a bug .
it amazes me that with all the other techincal issues google might be facing, we had them drop everythiong to fix a bug a bout a search query. people seem too lazy to type in their profain search querys themselves so they had google make it so they can see 10 results that show no information about what islam is, just biased opinions at first glance, i say 'at first glance' becayuse there might be 1 or 2 sites that actually show valid evidence. i don't see why these religeous diehards get all worked up over a religeno not showing profain resutls in a search engine. you would think they would like to see nice things about their beleifs. but hey, that's just my opinion and i am afraid not many people share it.
Now google has taken the burden away from people of attacking God's religion. wait… doesn't that make them evil?
the degree of stupidity in this country has now gone to such an extent that google is considered biased and morally faulted for refusing to buy into racism and religiously-based hatred. amazing.