A post by Pat
Does Google have a bug or are they trying not to bug Islam?
Funny thing happens when you Google “islam is”. Nothing derogatory comes up in the auto-results pane. Try “christianity is” and you get auto-results like bullsh[*]t, a lie, a cult. On the other hand, if you type in “islam will”, you’ll get results that include dominate the world, conquer the world, take over the world. Try “christianity will” and you get less vigorous sounding suggestions like will disappear, will end.
What’s Islam? Don’t Ask Google
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.
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.
I think that bug might be more virulent than H1N1. It’s a pandemic in the MSM.
