Google Censoring Torrent Search Suggestions: 7 Terrible Things They Don’t Censor
Google’s war against torrents is being kept quiet. No announcements. No press releases. You will only find the story in blogs that are carefully watched.
In essence, Google is removing keywords from their Suggest and Instant results so that they are no longer recommended when people start typing them. If you continue all the way through on a term such as “BitTorrent,” Google will offer the results. Reluctantly. They won’t help you out at all, even if you type all the way to the “n.” Try typing in “BitTorren” without the last “t” into Google.
Apparently, they have no idea what you’re talking about.
It’s their search and they’ve made their choice. The funny part is that something as relatively harmless as downloading torrents is considered taboo on Google, but there are plenty of other more harmful searches that Google is all too willing to recommend…
Google recently introduced Instant Searches, way for people to easily search without completing the whole keyword or term that you want to search. Although I understand the validity of comments here saying to just complete the whole word and get it over with, I think the author has a point. With Google introducing this new way of searching, they are actually making people get used to not completing keywords and rely more on their recommended instant search results. If this happens, those filtered by the instant search gets no traffic unless they key in the whole term and press enter.
I’m sorry, but this is a non-issue. So torrents aren’t offered as autosuggestions–so WHAT? There’s effectively no censorship going on, so I acutally resent the implication of there being one. If you search for torrents, you get results, so where’s the crime (heh heh, get it, the “crime”?)? You’re making a big deal out of the fact that they’re not listed under autosuggestions? That’s petty, and ultimately pointless. And better Google should deal with the torrent issue in this manner than outright banning torrent-related search results altogether, don’t you think? GOD, the crap that makes it into articles sometimes, I mean, really now…
But Google is reinforcing the notion that torrents can only be used for illegal purposes. It’s a small gesture towards keeping torrents taboo, but one that hundreds of millions of people are exposed to daily.
ArchK, you are a total retard.
That is 100% censorship. They are indirectly trying to prevent people
from finding out about torrents, and to make it harder for the people
who already know.
Because of what? Because some powerful companies push them to.
Where does it stop? Next they might remove the name of a presidential candidate from the suggestions, to try to affect an election.
If they are doing this already, what are they also filtering out of their search results? You would never know what manipulations they are doing to the search results.
So get it into you teeny mind, that this is about more than just torrents.
um, just tiped “bit” into the Search bar and the first suggestion is … bittorrent !! … i don’t use google.com, i use http://www.google.ro/ig?hl=ro, and i also tried on google.com and still the first suggestion is bittorrent … this could be because of the region, or the language, or because i’m using Chrome … or because this whole thing is f***ed up !!
As long as the corporations don’t lose money, people can steal money, kidnap children, make meth, and dodge taxes. nice
You people talk about this being a business decision, well that’s exactly what it is. It’s a consumer decision to point these things out on a blog. The point is Google claims to be an organic search engine, when really that is less and less true everyday. As more and more people that realize this, Google might make a different business decision.