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…

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JD Rucker

JD Rucker is Editor at Soshable, a Social Media Marketing Blog. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, and founder of both Judeo Christian Church and Dealer Authority. He drinks a lot of coffee, usually in the form of a 5-shot espresso over ice.

92 thoughts on “Google Censoring Torrent Search Suggestions: 7 Terrible Things They Don’t Censor”

Anonymous says:

January 28, 2011 at 8:03 PM

FYI when u try to post this link on facebook it soesnt show any pictures or any of the story like it does with other links maybe to make it look less interesting so people wont click on it.

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1. Simon says:
  
  January 29, 2011 at 1:39 PM
  
  OMG you serious? Facebook and Google are conspiring, Lmao
  
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K.M. says:

January 28, 2011 at 5:14 PM

thank you for pointing this out!
I probably never would have noticed otherwise
‘rapidshare’ and ‘megaupload’ also not auto-completed wowow

UGH the Internet is so awesome/weird/maddening

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Angel says:

January 29, 2011 at 5:13 AM

Certainly I don't understand such arrival on Torrent. Probably it is connected with pressure from legal owners. After such statement I for myself have found torrent search engine . Fortunately today it is a lot of them. Thus I have solved for myself a problem of search of torrent-files.

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Jiggaboo says:

January 28, 2011 at 5:06 PM

I call bullshit on this article. It auto-completed fine, It returned tens of millions of resluts once entered. Why is he trying to spread these lies?

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ersouza says:

January 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM

Autocomplete/Autosuggest only provides 5 suggestions anyway. Are we saying any possibly relevant suggestion that doesn’t make it into that top 5 is censorship? Hey, I typed “bit” and it didn’t suggest “bittern” to me – why is Google censoring birds?!?

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