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…
I think the point is that google’s suggest feature is deemed useful by people. So if you’re telling people that they should stop being lazy, you’re missing the point.
It is a little ridiculous. “ubuntu torr” comes up empty. It is a shocking case of the priorities of $multi-million corporations far outweighing the voices of decent human beings. After all, where’s the profit in saving lives?
Hi,
Censorship in this sense would not be showing you results from your search. Not showing you results live while you type them in is something entirely different, since the information AT THE END OF YOUR SEARCH is still the same.
That this is even being called censorship is completely harebrained and retarded. Get the fuck over it, there is SO MUCH WORSE going on than you not being able to get live results for a search when you type the word ‘titties’ into Google’s search engine.
“So much worse going on”? Do you work in charity and helping save lives? Sounds like you are doing something considered “worthwhile”. Everyone has their own jobs to do.
In the Italian version of google, if I type “come si fa a f” (“how do I do to m”), one of the autocompletions is “come si fa a fare una pompa” (“how do I do to make a blowjob”).
Hahahah!
“In essence, Google is removing keywords from their Suggest and Instant results so that they are no longer recommended when people start typing them.”
Hey guys, it just started with autocomplete. Sure they will censor the results sooner or later.
Yes, they will. Why should MPAA and RIAA. say – “ok, it´s enough”?
“Try typing in “BitTorren” without the last “t” into Google.”
I did, & got a ton of torrent suggestions. Maybe the author should try it before stating the contrary.
The author knows what his doing.