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If you want to see a very bad example of a broken search engine, use the Google voice Assistant to search for "how many raccoons can fit"

oogali 5y ago
Wow, I was not expecting _that_ result.
- walrus01 5y ago
  Neither were the raccoons
fsckboy 5y ago
i just did a regular text search for it and the top results where "how many raccoons can fit up your butt"... no voice assistant involved, and the destination urls were not google's.
Jap2-0 5y ago
For something a little more innocuous, type "Cicero" in the address bar in Chrome or Firefox and see what it autocompletes it to.
- microtherion 5y ago
  You mean the 4.5 millimeters? I believe that's a legitimate unit in use in the publishing business.
  - Jap2-0 5y ago
    Yes, and it is; however, my (intended) point was that it is what almost no one is looking for when they type "Cicero", and if you simply search for Cicero by itself, you get nothing telling you that it's a typographic unit.
Dah00n 5y ago
I'm not sure that is "broken" but more like inappropriate. I read an article with a list of bad default results (as in with no filter bubble) that are way worse. Like searching for "tween" on bing shows auto suggestions like "tween swimsuits inappropriate" and "tween budding images". Same for all search engines that uses bing like Brave and DDG (at least at the time I read about it). It seems pretty obvious what those searches are looking for.
- Dah00n 5y ago
  Replying to myself here but I reported the issue to Bing. If they don't fix this then not only are they serving inappropriate search suggestions but they also run the risk of a huge shitstorm. I'm amazed it haven't been fixed ..
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    I had to see what the outrage was about. What's the big deal with a sears like store selling back to school clothes? Something tells me your results are a little more personalized or you are in a country specific search that isn't the US. Shitstorms these days blow over quickly. Someone is always ready for the next big outrage.
    - Dah00n 5y ago
      I don't know what you mean with Sears? Do you mean a search result from Bing? Because I'm not talking about results but about Microsoft taking what I'm guessing is often used searches from people looking for underage girls in inappropriate clothing or pictures of underage girl's breasts (budding, pokies, etc.) and using it as default auto-suggestions for all bing.com users (the suggestions that show up in the search bar when you type). Are you saying you think Microsoft suggesting to people they might want to search for images of 9 to 12 year old girls (tweens) in inappropriate clothing or pictures of their breasts are a good choice of suggestions? The article I read about it in were from the US, 5000+ km from where I'm at, and the results were the exact same as I get (and I don't use Bing). It has nothing to do with me or where I'm at but nice try implying otherwise.

oogali 5y ago

Wow, I was not expecting _that_ result.

walrus01 5y ago
Neither were the raccoons

fsckboy 5y ago

i just did a regular text search for it and the top results where "how many raccoons can fit up your butt"... no voice assistant involved, and the destination urls were not google's.

Jap2-0 5y ago

For something a little more innocuous, type "Cicero" in the address bar in Chrome or Firefox and see what it autocompletes it to.

microtherion 5y ago
You mean the 4.5 millimeters? I believe that's a legitimate unit in use in the publishing business.
- Jap2-0 5y ago
  Yes, and it is; however, my (intended) point was that it is what almost no one is looking for when they type "Cicero", and if you simply search for Cicero by itself, you get nothing telling you that it's a typographic unit.

Dah00n 5y ago

I'm not sure that is "broken" but more like inappropriate. I read an article with a list of bad default results (as in with no filter bubble) that are way worse. Like searching for "tween" on bing shows auto suggestions like "tween swimsuits inappropriate" and "tween budding images". Same for all search engines that uses bing like Brave and DDG (at least at the time I read about it). It seems pretty obvious what those searches are looking for.

Dah00n 5y ago
Replying to myself here but I reported the issue to Bing. If they don't fix this then not only are they serving inappropriate search suggestions but they also run the risk of a huge shitstorm. I'm amazed it haven't been fixed ..
- ipaddr 5y ago
  I had to see what the outrage was about. What's the big deal with a sears like store selling back to school clothes? Something tells me your results are a little more personalized or you are in a country specific search that isn't the US. Shitstorms these days blow over quickly. Someone is always ready for the next big outrage.
  - Dah00n 5y ago
    I don't know what you mean with Sears? Do you mean a search result from Bing? Because I'm not talking about results but about Microsoft taking what I'm guessing is often used searches from people looking for underage girls in inappropriate clothing or pictures of underage girl's breasts (budding, pokies, etc.) and using it as default auto-suggestions for all bing.com users (the suggestions that show up in the search bar when you type). Are you saying you think Microsoft suggesting to people they might want to search for images of 9 to 12 year old girls (tweens) in inappropriate clothing or pictures of their breasts are a good choice of suggestions? The article I read about it in were from the US, 5000+ km from where I'm at, and the results were the exact same as I get (and I don't use Bing). It has nothing to do with me or where I'm at but nice try implying otherwise.