BiNet USA Wins Over Google in Search Term Dispute

[bialogue]

After a campaign by BiNet USA and bisexuals worldwide, Google has removed “bisexual” from its list of banned words.

BiNet USA is pleased to confirm that Google Inc. has unblocked the term “bisexual” from its search algorithm. Now that “bisexual” is allowed, terms such as “ bisexual quotes”, “bisexual rights”, and “bisexual parenting” are

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[dhamphir]

Not even shopped well. *lol*

[fenris_lorsrai]

I think that one guys shirt is some sort of quantum singularity. OH GOD, THE WHOLE INTERNET IS GOING TO BE SUCKED INTO HIS SHIRT!!!

[redstar826]

heh, I want to know what the original shirt was (or was he not wearing one?) and why the chose to replace it with something so awful looking

[romp]

not filling in with auto-complete seems small but signifiant--bizarre that this was ever the case

[redstar826]

huh, the auto complete still doesn't seem to be working, but all the hits on the first page seem relevant. While it seems stupid to not include the auto complete option I am confused as to how this made searching more difficult. But, I tend to ignore the auto complete stuff anyways.

[layweed]

Yarrr. I hate HATE HATE auto-complete. I turned it off when Google first rolled in the feature, and then they made it permanent and a feature and not an option. Ugh. I feel like it gives Google too much power in search terms, even though it doesn't really inhibit web searches. Plus it's annoying as all hell.

Idk, maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age. I remember when Google was just a plain site with a search box and no gimmicky features.

[bialogue]

According to Ms. Cheltenham in online comments, "If you type bisexual parenting or bisexual rights, the auto completes actually occur NOW when they used to not. But only these few terms are auto completing now because we've essentially started over with Google and all the stuff that would auto complete in 2008 hasn't been auto completed for a few years . . . Sucks to be starting over but due to the sheer numbers of our community, we can expect to see real change in 6 months to a year . . . not including this info in the press releases cause this stuff isn't a hard science but in my past experience it takes about that to see changes in search results."

[brother_dour]

First I've heard about this. WTF?

[bialogue]

you can find more info in this article including a youtube video showing the block in action

[tnganon]

i'm glad there's an article being posted about this, and that google has (finally) stopped banning the autocomplete of bisexual and lesbian.

however i'm sorry to see you being the one to post it, seeing as i still remember that time you whined about lesbians and their patriarchal conspiracies. forgive me for bringing it up, but that stuff tends to stick in my totally irrational dyke mind.

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[zombieroadtrip]

"monosexual privilege"

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[the_physicist]

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[zombieroadtrip]

Enjoy