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Google Refuses to Show Negative Search Suggestions About Black Lives Matter
By Allum Bokhari, Breitbart, September 2, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementGoogle’s search autocomplete feature fails to generate negative suggestions for the term “BLM,” in stark contrast to other search engines.
Typing the words “BLM is” on Google currently only returns the suggestion “BLM israel.” It does not show a long list of suggestions, which is unusual for a popular search term and suggests that a list of suggestions formerly existed but was removed.
Typing “BLM is ” with a space after “is” generates no search suggestions at all — highly unusual for a search term that has recently seen a massive spike in attention from users.
Google search suggestions are usually generated automatically, based on how often and how recently people are typing in specific searches.
A search spelling out “Black Lives Matter” returns a few results which again are positive in nature.
On DuckDuckGo, Google’s privacy-focused competitor, searching for “BLM is ” generates a normal list of suggestions, some of which have negative connotations.
The list includes suggestions like “BLM is actblue,” “BLM is marxists,” “BLM is a cancer,” and “BLM is a front,” as well as “BLM is funded by.” The top three results on the “BLM is funded by” search are from conservative websites, including Breitbart News.
On Google, the top results are Wikipedia — a website dominated by left-wing political narratives — and the site of a left-wing advocacy organization.
Search suggestions on two other competing search engines, Yahoo! and Bing, also generate search suggestions in response to “BLM is “, some of which are negative.
While it can’t be independently verified by Breitbart News, some Twitter users reported that Google searches for “BLM is ” previously generated a similar list of search suggestions to DuckDuckGo, but that the list then mysteriously disappeared.
https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1300277668735320066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1300277668735320066%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Ftech%2F2020%2F09%2F01%2Fgoogle-refuses-to-show-negative-search-suggestions-about-black-lives-matter%2F
https://twitter.com/thedonalddotwin/status/1300414242005417984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1300414242005417984%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Ftech%2F2020%2F09%2F01%2Fgoogle-refuses-to-show-negative-search-suggestions-about-black-lives-matter%2F
This story has echoes of the 2016 election, in which it was discovered that Google — in contrast to Bing and Yahoo — was not generating negative search suggestions for the search term”Hillary Clinton,” despite the popularity of such searches among users.
At the time, Google defended itself by saying “our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name.”
But negative search suggestions for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders were generated by autocomplete in 2016. What’s more, BLM is not a “person’s name,” so that defense does not apply in this case.
In a statement to Breitbart News, Google did not comment on the specifics of this story, but said it has “systems” to prevent “potentially policy-violating predictions” from appearing.
Google neither confirmed nor denied whether negative search suggestions about Black Lives Matter were violations of policy.
“Autocomplete is a feature that saves you time by predicting the query you may be typing, and we have systems in place to prevent potentially policy-violating predictions from appearing,” said a Google spokeswoman.
“Whether or not a prediction appears, you can still search for whatever you want on Google. We don’t and would never modify our products or enforce our policies in any way to promote or disadvantage any particular political ideology, viewpoint or candidate.”
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, where he has published material from whistleblowers inside Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
Bokhari’s upcoming book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election is currently available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers.
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20 Comments
3 years ago
The LEFT is pulling out all stops to get Trump out.
IMO, Pelosi is symbolically tearing up our Constitution through what she says and does, unless there is something she can construe from it to push HER agenda to get Trump out and destroy our country. DEMS are counting on the ignornat to not believe how outrageous and crazy they have become.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
OMG! IS THAT YOU FELIX?!
I and others have been looking for you on BB….someone said you were banned.
Then someone else said it was a limited ban.
Catch me up on what is going on.
So glad to see you again :0)
3 years ago
Use DuckDuckGo.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
If I recall from a couple of years ago, I tried the DuckDuck Go….when I searched all it brought up was articles from GOOGLE and the Microsoft site…
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I used it because my nephew wanted me to look up what happened when the President went out to the church across the street from the White House and the articles said they used Police and tear gas to clear protesters so that he could get there. They then spent the rest of the articles saying he was trying for an obozo the clown moment. I did notice that some things that have happened recently the Conservative sites haven’t even covered. I know that Microsoft is out to get the Republicans, so I will try other things first.
3 years ago
DuckDuckGo or Yippy(still analysing it) Watch out for MS dumping Bing on you at every update..
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
Me Either!……but then where do we go….the world of algorithms is all tangled into each other.
Laugh if you want, but we are living in Arnold’s “SKYNET” UNIVERSE NOW….LOOK for the sky to be filled with drones monitoring us.
3 years ago
Nothing new here.
3 years ago
Living, experiencing, reading and researching through the various social media engines over the past several years, these young super-billionaires who own them feel fully entitled to shape and create a history that will misdirect the public from all the facts, and not let them develop their own opinion about all the facts and all the events.
3 years ago
Zuckerberg uses all buzzwords of the Left and has turned himself into cult-like hero of Left but he is no different than any other Fascist Propaganda Chief!
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack Holan
I think of Hitler every time I see him…..though he looks strangely like the “aliens” on Ancient Aliens…..his eyes look like black pools of creepy.
3 years ago
BML does a good job on its own speaking about its values, visions and ultimate goals. Arrogant people who believe who believe they are entitled and right aren’t shy about speaking in front of the camera and expressing their true views. So, we don’t need google to research, in the end. Just catch in real time, capture it, to memorialize it for posterity.
3 years ago
FOLKS….SAY IT WITH ME…..FASCISM AND TOTALITARIANISM…..that is the media today that is wholly owned, bought, and run by George Soros……a man who openly says he despises America and INTENDS TO TEAR IT DOWN.
AND THIS IS NOT SEDITION?
3 years ago
3 years ago
WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS OF GRACE PERIOD FOR GENTILES!!! The “END POINT” is eternal HELL for ALL UNBELIEVERS, and eternal LIFE with Jesus for ALL BELIEVERS!!! True DEATH is being SEPARATED FROM YOUR CREATOR!!!
PREPARE TO MEET THY CREATOR!!! JESUS IS COMING!!! BELIEVE ON HIM!!!
SEE bethelchurchmo.com, or Gene Kim, or Robert Breaker both on youtube, MORE INFORMATION TO AVOID HELL!
3 years ago
1984 or/and Clockwork Orange. They were sci-fi books, but are being used as how-to instructions by the Satanic Left.
Side note – edited because auto grammer/spelling etc. changes my typing as I enter ‘post’ – very irritating to see words I did not enter show up.
3 years ago
Not only that – Google is providing a world-wide platform for marketing illegal drugs on Google Groups. The Usenet groups or Google groups are swamped by drug dealers and Google doesn’t give a sh$t. Look at http://www.deja.com
