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Google In Trouble Again Over Racist Search Suggestions In UK

Published on 2014/02/11 By admin

Is Google Suggest (autocomplete) simply a mirror held up to society; or is it a product that needs to be censored and regulated to protect us from potentially offensive and objectionable content — even defamation?

Two Years Later, BitTorrent Back In Google’s Auto Completions After Piracy Removal

Published on 2013/09/24 By admin

Over two years ago, Google removed BitTorrent from the instant search auto-complete search suggestions. Now, it appears that when you begin typing [bit...] into the Google search box, Google now shows BitTorrent as a search suggestion within Google Instant search. Here is a screen shot of the…

Google Continues Censoring Piracy Related Search Suggestions By Blocking Grooveshark

Published on 2013/07/24 By admin

TorrentFreak reports Google has added another web site to the piracy block list for their instant search suggestions. The site is named Grooveshark, which is a popular free music streaming service. Google would not comment specifically about Grooveshark but told TorrentFreak, “our algorithms..

Google Autocomplete: Your Personal Brand’s First Impression

Published on 2013/04/18 By admin

Pop Quiz:  What is the first thing a searcher sees when they type your name into the Google search bar? If your answer was related webpages found in SERPs, you’re wrong — that would be the second thing. The first thing they see are the Autocomplete suggestions that drop down from the..