Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More

[person66]

If I type in the whole word "torrent", then it will still give me instant and auto-complete results, it only censors it if you haven't typed the whole word yet.

Anyway, if they start filtering actual results, then I'm switching to a different search engine.

 

[Fireballo]

Google has turned into an arm of the government. I use startpage

 

[Fishaman P]

Are you even allowed to post 7P8's initials?

 

[CarbonX13]

The results aren't filtered as far as I see, so this is rather useless. I never bothered with Instant or Auto-Complete in the first place.

 

[monkat]

Holy shit, man...

How dare a private company barely censor a free service to the public! Bastards! The fiends!

What will we ever do without our auto-complete to finish our illegal downloading phrases! Type out the whole clause!? NEVER! Let's all bitch about it in a forum instead!

Google is a huge advocate of OSS (just thought I'd throw that out there) and torrents, they are just trying to stop their service from hurting other developers via piracy. Do you think that this is just a whim? Someone at Google just said, "Hey! You know what would be cool?" No! This has assumedly been discussed at length, and has been done for the good of the developer world.

Also, what are you all so butthurt about? Do you all actually use Google to search for torrents? Any legal torrents you need are readily available on the main page of the project. I'm sure you all know about the sites where you can search for more illicit torrents as well.

Fucking hell...

Tell me, in any of Google's history, what makes you believe that they will begin to actually censor things that they don't like for private reasons, such as political beliefs (previously mentioned in this thread)? What exactly makes you think that an extremely minor censoring that (if it were stronger) would potentially support developers and therein stimulate the world economy will lead to Google becoming the resurrection of Nazi Germany?

 

[antwill]

Hmmm, it's not censoring me. I tested several WaReZ oriented searches and Google autocompleted them all. Maybe Google reads my mind and knows my intent isn't malicious?

What are you talking about? Google have been happily data-mining you for years now, they are merely allowing you to goto said sites so they have more to block...

 

[DeMoN]

It's only for instant and autocomplete. No big deal, instant sucks anyways.

 

[Another World]

i stopped browsing the web with java-script 10+ years ago. i had no idea google did auto complete.

-another world

 

[antwill]

i stopped browsing the web with java-script 10+ years ago. i had no idea google did auto complete.

-another world

You're not missing out on anything, half the time it's more of a nuisance when you accidentally typo also I have found it feels it knows what it thinks you're searching for, even when you type in something completely different, so you need to then click on the "or did you want to search for _____" with the text of exactly what you were searching for in the first place.

 

[machomuu]

Well google is the only search engine I will use, I don't like the feel of yahoo or bing or any of the others, really. There's too much I like about Google to give up on it, especially for something as small and unimportant as this (heck, right now I'm using Google Chrome).

 

[Rockym]

Wait...people actually use that instant search crap on Google? I've had it turned off since day 1. It's really annoying.

 

[Bladexdsl]

i just tried it and it still works for me

 

[8BitWalugi]

i just tried it and it still works for me

Same. And can't you still search the whole thing (Megaupload instead of Megauplo and letting Google do the rest?)

 

[megawalk]

Google China V2....this will definetely be the END of google >=3 lolz....in anycase nobody is censoring me. if the one search engine doesn't work i just go over to the other

 

[aiRWaLKRe]

I'm not in the google sheeppl herd, I'm surprised I even took the time to read the OP ( I must be bored today ). I never use that search engine. I don't conform to society and their " just google it" I have my own free mind and use whatever search engine I want to use, not whats in the cool, in the now. Just like when your parents said "if everyone says to jump off a cliff, would you?"

 

[Oveneise]

Who cares. Instant search sucks anyways, never use it.

 

[Arras]

I'm not in the google sheeppl herd, I'm surprised I even took the time to read the OP ( I must be bored today ). I never use that search engine. I don't conform to society and their " just google it" I have my own free mind and use whatever search engine I want to use, not whats in the cool, in the now. Just like when your parents said "if everyone says to jump off a cliff, would you?"

I'm pretty sure everyone (or almost) uses Google because it has a huge database and it works like it should.

OT: Oh dear, I'll have to type out torrent.
Has anyone tested if the "Did you mean" censors these things as well?

 

[KDH]

Has anyone tested if the "Did you mean" censors these things as well?

I just tried it out, and it does not. It still asks if that's what you meant, or just show the results directly.

 

[HaniKazmi]

So far, this doesnt really effect anyone. Lets hope google realizes that if they expand this any further, they're gonna have a huge backlash.

 

[Terminator02]

i stopped browsing the web with java-script 10+ years ago. i had no idea google did auto complete.

-another world

You're not missing out on anything, half the time it's more of a nuisance when you accidentally typo also I have found it feels it knows what it thinks you're searching for, even when you type in something completely different, so you need to then click on the "or did you want to search for _____" with the text of exactly what you were searching for in the first place.