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Except Google does police the auto complete, which makes the one's they don't police stand out. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/08/w
by RyanZAG 10y ago
Except Google does police the auto complete, which makes the one's they don't police stand out.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/08/words_banned_from_bing_and_google_s_autocomplete_algorithms.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0...
Article is from 2013, and they do routinely update which words they police. They also now police searching for "Name+Crime", I'd guess to avoid lawsuits.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/andrew-napolitano/did-google-adjust-its-autocomplete-algorithm-hide-/ http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jun/23/...
I think Google has opened themselves up to critique about allowing this antisemitism by policing other offensive terms. They need to either set up a forum for policing all offensive terms, or avoid policing. Otherwise articles like the OP will continue to plague them.
- godmodus 10y agoi wasn't aware of that. talk about digging your own PC grave.