Google Blocking Negative Searches on Islam?
Topics on religion always causes a stir among people and as much as possible, talking about the issue during parties, meetings or gathering is being avoided.
Online, looks like Google is taking a different approach about the matter. Take this simple test:
Type in ‘Christianity is’ at Google and you will find a bunch of negative recommendations on their drop down. Here is the screen shot below:
Now try it with a number of religions and you will see the same thing.
But when you type in ‘Islam is’, Google seems to systematically blocks the search. In fact, there is no recommendations at all. Look at the screen shot below:
So why is Google blocking the search recommendations?
Google explains how its Google Suggest feature works:
As you type, Google Suggest communicates with Google and comes back with the suggestions we show. If you’re signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, suggestions are drawn from searches you’ve done, searches done by users all over the world, sites in our search index, and ads in our advertising network.
So, what do you think?
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I just tried this and you’re right about the recommendation on Islam, Snow.
It’s hard to speculate, but it is not good if the blocking is true.
This might create another dispute among the 2 religion, and that will not be helpful to unite us as one.
I hope this will be explained further by Google.
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i don’t understand how Google werks but i find it outrageous.
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Very interesting Snow. Perhaps people are afraid to do a negative search on Islam. It might be risky… But shouldn’t be considering Islam is a wonderful religion.