Scatter

November 24, 2011 at 12:04am

Was this on their to do list because I'm not seeing it in action.  When I type "pir" into Google its auto complete recommends Pirate Bay.  When I type in "ISO_" in it recommends ISOHunt.com. 

schwit

November 23, 2011 at 9:03pm

Autocomplete/google instant is a huge annoying POS. It would be nice to disable it permanently.

winmaster

November 23, 2011 at 7:45pm

As an Opera user, this does not even affect me. Really, maybe if people can't press "enter" they deserve censored internet.

 

To get around spam filer:

 

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http://randomurl.info/aonehfiuoawhvewoihfiowehfiowehewoif

tornato7

November 23, 2011 at 7:00pm

Google's always going to be in a tough position for anything that they do, as they control the majority of traffic (and therefore money) going through the internet. A small move like this costs some companies millions and saves others millions. They have shown themselves to be responsible in not censoring results before, and sometimes I even see a little thing that says some results had to be removed

poee

November 23, 2011 at 6:40pm

I couldn't care less what Google does with their auto-complete. I never use it. Besides, it is one thing for Google to censor actual search results, and another thing entirely for them to censor what terms they are providing YOU to search on from auto-complete. It is likely nothing more than a CYA move.

Is there something the matter with your fingers that you cannot simply type in the full word you are searching for? Have we become so helpless that we need Google to provide our search terms for us while we are hunting for shit to steal?

RUSENSITIVESWEETNESS

November 23, 2011 at 4:43pm

How long before Google starts reporting people to police for their searches?

How long before Google starts collecting fees to move vendors to the top of search lists? Hell, they probably already do.

JoetheMobster

November 23, 2011 at 3:34pm

dunno how that's working for them, I type in "pi" and it auto-completes "piratebay" in the search box and the first site brought up is "thepiratebay.org"

Eoraptor

November 23, 2011 at 3:30pm

Agreed. Right now it's a simple matter to hit "enter" and still get the results you were searching, but sooner or later Big G or Bing or someone else is just going to decide "no, those results are too sensetive for you to see, here, have a paid link to BMG/Universal instead."

and yes, I'm sure that there is a noticable traffic drop, especially from casual users who have no idea that there may be other results out there that they are having hidden from them.