Hoe vaak per dag, week of maand gebruikt u niet de Google zoekfunctie? Google is bij veruit de meest gebruikte zoekmachine op het internet en dan kunnen er merkwaardige situaties ontstaan, waarvan wij u er een niet willen onthouden:
Wilde u enige tijd geleden via Google weten wat “christendom” betekent of inhoudt, dan kreeg u keurig een aantal opties voorgeschoteld. Typte u echter het woord “islam” in, dan wist Google het even niet meer en kreeg u geen opties. Inmiddels is is dit allemaal opgelost, software foutje volgens Google en dat zal ook wel zo zijn. leest u het originele bericht er nog maar eens op na :
=== Google’s search engine returns common results to most queries as you type. But the “don’t be evil” company appears to be censoring its results when it comes to Islam.
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Type “Christianity is” into Google and you’ll get a list of common searches. But the engine appears to suppress results for “Islam is.”
Type a few words into the search field on Google’s home page and the engine automatically returns a helpful list of popular, similar searches for the words you’ve typed in so far — a convenient way to find the right information.
Enter “Christianity is” and you’ll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type “Judaism is” and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as “Judaism is false” and “Judaism is not a race.”
But type “Islam is” into the search engine and Google’s auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is “don’t be evil,” is censoring its search results.
According to Google’s Web site, the query suggestions that appear as you type are drawn from from searches you’ve done (if you’re logged in), searches done by users all over the world, sites in the search index and ads in Google’s network.
The company also explains that “We try to filter out suggestions that include pornographic terms, dirty words, and hate and violence terms. If you encounter a term that should not be suggested, please let us know by posting in the Google Web Search Help Forum.”
Perhaps the returned results are so inappropriate that all results have simply been turned off, an option some Internet users label ‘cowardly.’ After all, search for hot-button items such as “scientology is” or “Muhammad is” and the results are even more offensive.
A Google spokesman explained that the weird absence of results is just a software problem: “This is in fact a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can.” But the company would not respond to requests for clarification.
An intriguing corollary: Google offers search suggestions for future tense queries as well. Ask “Christianity will” and Google suggests “Christianity will end, it will disappear,” and “Christianity will end.” Ask the same about Islam and Google notes that “Islam will dominate the world” and “Islam will destroy Europe.”
Googling Christianity will or Islam will returns very different results than those returned from the search for “Islam is.” =====
En nogmaals e.e.a. is inmiddels opgelost, met de excuses van Google.