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A list of Google Instant's banned words and phrases
It shouldn't really come as a surprise that Google has a blacklist for Google Instant -- after all, the vast majority of searchers won't be looking for anything on the list -- but it does surprise me that there's no way to turn off the blacklisting. Even with SafeSearch Filtering turned off, the blacklist is still triggered.
It wouldn't be hard for Google to provide real Google Instant for those that want it. Perhaps that config option is coming -- or perhaps this is one of Google's larger steps into controlling our Web-surfing experience.
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Subscribe to commentsFezSep 28th 2010 12:12PM
Hey Seb,
From what I can understand is that google isn't blocking a list of words instead they have an algorithm set up which detects if the search result is going to return any adult/offensive results, once it goes over the set amount of adult/offensive sites the "instant" part of the search is automatically switched off.
I don't know for sure, what do you think?
Sebastian AnthonySep 28th 2010 12:19PM
That's exactly right!
SteveSep 28th 2010 12:33PM
un-be-fuckin-lievable
(lets see if this one gets blocked)
Jonathan MinnickSep 28th 2010 1:21PM
they've been doing the same w/ Google Suggest for quite some time now... although I found it kind of funny when I was searching a few days ago for "does sprite..." and after the first few letters got "does sperm die when it hits the air"
cyberguy91Sep 29th 2010 4:04PM
Just FYI, in my Chrome Canary Build, with the instant turned on in the Omnibar, none of these apply. I tried entering some pretty explicit and offensive stuff, and it never did block them. Thought that might be worth noting.
Sebastian AnthonySep 29th 2010 4:12PM
That's interesting :) But I'm not sure what the significance is... I'll have to think about it.