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Do you really think that it simply excludes predictions with the word "crimes"? Yes, I was seeing "... crimes" when typing for "jared kushner cri". But with o
by bhk 7y ago
Do you really think that it simply excludes predictions with the word "crimes"?
Yes, I was seeing "... crimes" when typing for "jared kushner cri". But with other names it shows a complete prediction:
"julian assange cri" --> "julian assange crimes"
"jeffrey epstein cr" --> "jeffrey epstein crimes"
- moultano 7y agoI don't know all the details of how that system works, I don't work on it, but surely you'd agree that they're both more appropriate suggestions, as both of them have been indicted. I don't get "trump crimes" for "trump cri" either.
- bhk 7y agoI agree they are more appropriate. Surely you'd agree there's a lot of room for bias to manifest in a system like this.
- moultano 7y agoYes, and I definitely understand the argument that Google shouldn't be doing this, but note that we aren't talking about evidence of bias anymore. When someone sees confusing behavior on a political query, the tendency is to assume that political bias is involved, when it's just a very ordinary failing that search engines have all the time. I don't know the basis of the decision to enact that policy around autocomplete, but I do know Google has been sued many times due to the queries in autocomplete associated with people's names. https://searchengineland.com/google-faces-autocomplete-lawsuit-in-germany-132517 https://searchengineland.com/google-faces-autocomplete-lawsu... https://www.pcmag.com/news/326136/google-could-face-lawsuit-over-autocomplete https://www.pcmag.com/news/326136/google-could-face-lawsuit-... http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/filing-lawsuits-united-states-over-google-autocomplete http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/filing-lawsuits-united-states-...