Ask HN: Google search correction

4 points by mrits 10y ago ↗ HN

I don't want to get political, but I am a bit worried about how Google is (indirectly) censoring some of the searches. A conservative friend of mine noticed that when you searched "Clinton for prison" it would underline prison in red, as if it is a misspelling. I found it odd because I could put in just about every other word combination I can think of and it seemed ok. It was almost like the algorithm was "if starts with 'clinton for'" then 'prison' is not a word"... Anyone have any insight on this? Perhaps it is just a coincidence?

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nl 10y ago ↗

I'd be guessing it it likely to be something more like this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937969

mrits 10y ago ↗

I've tested it in Chrome and Safari

wret 10y ago ↗

It's worse than that. Try typing "crooked h" into the Google search box.

Until a few days ago this autocompleted to "crooked Hillary", now it doesn't. Watch what happens when you add additional letters after the H...

I think it's pretty obvious Google is censoring these results.