January 8, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves
Is Google Censoring…
So, it appears that Google is populating suggestion searches on Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, but apparently not Islam. At first I was very skeptical of Google censoring after hearing a story on CNN, so I wanted to see if it were true on my own. Well apparently it’s true.
My only guess at why they would be doing is is that they’re trying to avoid radical Muslims calling them out for auto populating searches like “Islam is bullshit”, “Islam (terrorists)”, or other potentially offensive searches. I can understand why they’d want to avoid this but I think by being completely transparent and equal across the board they would avoid the issue with less controversy.
What do you think?
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5 Comments
January 8, 2010
Unsurprising. Google shows you whatever they want to show you. If you do keyword research through their tools they never give you the full story – far from it.
I liked the test in this post though because it is very political censorship. I also remember hearing Google blocked searches on Tienanmen Square from China.
I used one off the top of my head to confirm the point:
Type “son of a b”
Type “son of a bi”
I rest my case.
January 9, 2010
All the big websites censor what they don't want you to see, this was something I was told by friends who suffer the consequences first hand, especially with facebook..
The fishy part however is that the religion of islam is being singled out.. it makes me curious to what they are hiding hehehe
January 9, 2010
Agreed. Kinda shady.
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January 14, 2010
It seems Google confirms they do censore…
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-appr...
January 14, 2010
Yep was thinkin the same
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