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Oh Goody lets waste time in parliament

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    Oh Goody lets waste time in parliament

    Google forced to remove racist search suggestions for British cities | Mail Online

    Google forced to remove vile racist search suggestions from its site for a number of British cities including Bradford, Leicester and Birmingham
    Insults appeared when users typed in 'Why is' followed by number of cities
    If 'Why is Bradford...' was written 'so full of P****' was suggested
    Search engine immediately removed all offensive Autocomplete terms
    Suggestions based on algorithms and popular searches, company says
    Speaking with Matt Quinton at The Sun, Labour MP for Leicester East Keith Vaz said: 'I am shocked these search options come up.


    'It is totally unacceptable and I will be raising this matter in Parliament'
    so is Visa Vaz right?
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    I'm wondering if something similar has been done to http://www.chavtowns.co.uk

    That was a hilarious site, but seems to have been inactive and inaccessible (?) for over a year now.

    Same thing with http://www.ilivehere.co.uk‎
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      #3
      It's not very often Keith Vaz is right about something.

      ...and he's not right this time.

      Even if he were right, I couldn't ever concede that fact to a snake oil salesman like Vaz.

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        #4
        Interesting returns from " Keith Vaz is "
        How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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          #5
          Goggle suggests when I type "Why is Munich"... Called Monaco

          Nice to know I don't live in one of those areas.



          "Why is London"...so expensive
          Last edited by scooterscot; 11 February 2014, 16:27.
          "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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            #6
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            Wot's a "knob van"?
            something people commonly believe our visa friendly MPs are?
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #7
              Claire Perry will be along soon to force all ISP to filter out all offensive words and phrases. Just like she the way she eradicated porn from the UK.

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                #8
                Doesn't google already apply filtering on auto-suggest anyway, I don't remember it suggesting swear words or anything like that?
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                  Doesn't google already apply filtering on auto-suggest anyway, I don't remember it suggesting swear words or anything like that?
                  Indeed. Makes you wonder why he didn't just flag it to Google... hmm?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Project Monkey View Post
                    Indeed. Makes you wonder why he didn't just flag it to Google... hmm?
                    because that means he would miss the publicity.
                    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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