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…
92 User Comments
Fer Real?
Worst article of January 2011 on the internet.
Heyhey
You use Papyrus, therefore your argument is invalid.
DAVE ID
ROFL 🙂 Good Point
jsownmx
They need to censor your use of Papyrus.
wj
you people are missing the point. the op is not being lazy and complaining that it won’t autocomplete and that he *has* to hit enter, he’s making a point that google censors words from their autocomplete dictionary, and the dichotomy (look it up) of the harmlessness of word(s) that are censored versus the potentially harmful words/phrases that are not censored.
obviously they can do whatever they like, since it’s their product, but it is an interesting that suggest will suggest things that are blatantly illegal, while censoring terms that are not necessarily illegal.
Opiated
Apparently this is not true but even if it were true I dont see why google should first censor what you think they should before censoring bittorrent. I personally would be delighted not to see torrent links flood my search results.