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what's interesting is that Google has been doing this for some time! For the longest time I was curious what would happen if you did a specific but obviously w

what's interesting is that Google has been doing this for some time! For the longest time I was curious what would happen if you did a specific but obviously wrong search such as "how do I poison someone and get away with it" or "how do I join ISIS without being caught" or something. Well as you can imagine for obvious reasons I did not do those searches! (To spell it out, I did not want them in my search history, and also they show pretty clear criminal intent, and also we have clandestine agencies who presumably watch for such things perhaps with Google's cooperation, etc.) Well some time ago I had the brilliant idea that I could test an "obviously wrong" search to see what kinds of results it would give. So I'm male, and I decided to search "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" or something (as though I'm pregnant) which is pretty clearly wrong but which I'm obviously immune to the idea of intent for. (To spell it out, because males obviously don't get pregnant.) I expected search results like forum discussions, a Yahoo Answer question phrased with that exact word, etc. You know, same as if you Google any other specific question like that. Well that's not what I got at all. Despite my very specific question phrased something like the above, ALL of the top ten links were to pages about "paternity fraud" - which I didn't even know was a thing. (I just thought it was just a shitty thing to do, and anyway could always be played off as a genuine mistake.) So I instantly learned that what I was Googling was fraud, and closed the page without clicking any of the links to learn more. But my reaction was: well played, Google!! If I had actually started out with that thought, it's likely I would have abandoned it after that search. To be clear, Google did NOT answer my question directly (even though no doubt there are tons of pages that would have answered it exactly as asked), instead teaching me why it's wrong. I was very impressed. I can only imagine the same would be done for some of the worse types of queries someone can do. - Note: just to make this gender-neutral: if I were a woman then to do my experiment I could have Googled something like "how long can I trick her into having sex with me if I got a vasectomy and she is trying to get pregnant" or something, which obviously cannot be a genuine question by a woman.

johnchristopher 9y ago
Have you tried without a profile and with another profile ? I regularly search Google with questions I think another persona would ask (parents or project manager recently).
- logicallee 9y ago
  no but it doesn't matter - none of the pages had my search terms, and they all had a different search term. It's obvious Google actively decided to return totally different pages. for my example with the vasectomy, it's as though all the pages returned were about "sex by deception" or maybe even "rape by deception". I'm not going to do the male version so we'll never know :)
  - johnchristopher 9y ago
    These are my results for "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" (same results for normal profile and anonymous browsing): ``` It Is Never OK to Trick a Man Into Fatherhood | CafeMom thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/128660/it_is_never_ok_to Women who trick men into fatherhood are the lowest of the low. ... like these where the man is clearly duped into becoming a father because of the woman's ... I think mothers need to be supported and that men get off the hook on many things ... NO SHE DIDN'T ! she's NEVER had a kid, and I know it, before when we used to ... Four men reveal the trauma of becoming a dad by deception | Daily ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Four-men-reveal-trauma-dad-deception.ht... She's not the only one to have tried this ultimate deception. ... Last week, Liz Jones confessed how she tried to trick her husband into fathering her child. .... I also think Carol wasn't thinking of the child, and I wonder how she ... Man fools partner into thinking he's in bed on Twitter | Daily Mail Online www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Boyfriend-fools-partner-thinking-s-bed.ht... The man used a coat to construct a fake bed and took a selfie while at the ... with his attempt to trick his girlfriend into thinking he is in bed while. These Guys Say They Were Tricked Into Becoming Fathers | Glamour https://www.glamour.com/story/these-guys-say-they-were-trick https://www.glamour.com/story/these-guys-say-they-were-trick ... who supposedly trick men into having babies with them--the idea being, ... He's never met his son and bailed when I was 11-weeks pregnant (and I ... their guys with the complete intension of getting pregnant but I also think ... It Happened to Me: I Tried to Trick my Ex Into Getting Me Pregnant www.xojane.com/.../it-happened-me-i-tried-trick-my-ex-getting-m... “Besides,” she coaxed me, “really, don't you think he's gay? ... now to my beautiful son, whose father -- my husband -- was a willing participant ... Eight Loving Ways to Manipulate Someone into Loving You - Medium https://medium.com/.../eight-loving-ways-to-manipulate-someone-.. https://medium.com/.../eight-loving-ways-to-manipulate-someo.... Here are eight tricks you can use which I don't think cause any harm… ... Try them not just on lovers but also on parents, siblings, friends and anyone ... Stare into someone's eyes for 60 seconds to induce feelings similar to love. ... end of the film when he's expecting you to say something like, “That Meryl. Secretarial Wars - Page 89 - Résultats Google Recherche de Livres https://books.google.be/books?isbn=0595275923 https://books.google.be/books?isbn=0595275923 Linda Gould - 2003 - ‎Fiction You're prepared to trick a man into thinking he's gotten you pregnant, and you'll be ... Didn't you have enough trouble convincing him he was the father last time, ... Grandpa Tricks Family into Thinking He Died in Heartbreaking Holiday ... "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" 1:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIZfycTWuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIZfycTWuM Grandpa Tricks Family into Thinking He Died in Heartbreaking Holiday Ad ... which starts with an old man ... Dad Pranks Son With Fake Hand - YouTube "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" 0:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH_TRzlO13s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH_TRzlO13s See the fear in this kid's eyes when his dad tricks him into thinking he sawed off his own father's hand ... Dad tricked into believing IVF baby was his only to find the father was ... www.mirror.co.uk › News › Real Life Stories › IVF Dad tricked into believing IVF baby was his only to find the father ... But now it is a heartbreaking reminder of the cruel trick that tore nine-year-old Simon from him. ... you love and think is your own – that is the cruelest thing anyone can do. ... “Yet he is with her every day while I just long to have him here. ```

johnchristopher 9y ago

Have you tried without a profile and with another profile ? I regularly search Google with questions I think another persona would ask (parents or project manager recently).

logicallee 9y ago
no but it doesn't matter - none of the pages had my search terms, and they all had a different search term. It's obvious Google actively decided to return totally different pages. for my example with the vasectomy, it's as though all the pages returned were about "sex by deception" or maybe even "rape by deception". I'm not going to do the male version so we'll never know :)
- johnchristopher 9y ago
  These are my results for "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" (same results for normal profile and anonymous browsing): ``` It Is Never OK to Trick a Man Into Fatherhood | CafeMom thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/128660/it_is_never_ok_to Women who trick men into fatherhood are the lowest of the low. ... like these where the man is clearly duped into becoming a father because of the woman's ... I think mothers need to be supported and that men get off the hook on many things ... NO SHE DIDN'T ! she's NEVER had a kid, and I know it, before when we used to ... Four men reveal the trauma of becoming a dad by deception | Daily ... www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Four-men-reveal-trauma-dad-deception.ht... She's not the only one to have tried this ultimate deception. ... Last week, Liz Jones confessed how she tried to trick her husband into fathering her child. .... I also think Carol wasn't thinking of the child, and I wonder how she ... Man fools partner into thinking he's in bed on Twitter | Daily Mail Online www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Boyfriend-fools-partner-thinking-s-bed.ht... The man used a coat to construct a fake bed and took a selfie while at the ... with his attempt to trick his girlfriend into thinking he is in bed while. These Guys Say They Were Tricked Into Becoming Fathers | Glamour https://www.glamour.com/story/these-guys-say-they-were-trick https://www.glamour.com/story/these-guys-say-they-were-trick ... who supposedly trick men into having babies with them--the idea being, ... He's never met his son and bailed when I was 11-weeks pregnant (and I ... their guys with the complete intension of getting pregnant but I also think ... It Happened to Me: I Tried to Trick my Ex Into Getting Me Pregnant www.xojane.com/.../it-happened-me-i-tried-trick-my-ex-getting-m... “Besides,” she coaxed me, “really, don't you think he's gay? ... now to my beautiful son, whose father -- my husband -- was a willing participant ... Eight Loving Ways to Manipulate Someone into Loving You - Medium https://medium.com/.../eight-loving-ways-to-manipulate-someone-.. https://medium.com/.../eight-loving-ways-to-manipulate-someo.... Here are eight tricks you can use which I don't think cause any harm… ... Try them not just on lovers but also on parents, siblings, friends and anyone ... Stare into someone's eyes for 60 seconds to induce feelings similar to love. ... end of the film when he's expecting you to say something like, “That Meryl. Secretarial Wars - Page 89 - Résultats Google Recherche de Livres https://books.google.be/books?isbn=0595275923 https://books.google.be/books?isbn=0595275923 Linda Gould - 2003 - ‎Fiction You're prepared to trick a man into thinking he's gotten you pregnant, and you'll be ... Didn't you have enough trouble convincing him he was the father last time, ... Grandpa Tricks Family into Thinking He Died in Heartbreaking Holiday ... "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" 1:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIZfycTWuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIZfycTWuM Grandpa Tricks Family into Thinking He Died in Heartbreaking Holiday Ad ... which starts with an old man ... Dad Pranks Son With Fake Hand - YouTube "How do I trick a man into thinking he's the father" 0:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH_TRzlO13s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH_TRzlO13s See the fear in this kid's eyes when his dad tricks him into thinking he sawed off his own father's hand ... Dad tricked into believing IVF baby was his only to find the father was ... www.mirror.co.uk › News › Real Life Stories › IVF Dad tricked into believing IVF baby was his only to find the father ... But now it is a heartbreaking reminder of the cruel trick that tore nine-year-old Simon from him. ... you love and think is your own – that is the cruelest thing anyone can do. ... “Yet he is with her every day while I just long to have him here. ```