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In response to recent questions and controversy surrounding Google’s autocomplete feature, the company published an article on its official Inside Search blog in an effort to clarify what the autocomplete feature is designed to do. Tamar Yehoshua, Google’s VP of Product Management in the Search division, says that by autocomplete’s very nature it is designed to avoid completing searches for a person’s name with terms that may be offensive or disparaging. “We made this change a while ago following feedback that Autocomplete too often predicted offensive, hurtful or inappropriate queries about people.
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Google Sets the Record Straight on Autocomplete by @SouthernSEJ