Google predictive search oddness

[d000hg]

Not new:

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...seo-13097.html

This doesn't seem quite the same though - rather than forcing preferred results in, NO results are shown at all.

This was in the Daily Mail today...

[AtW]

Only cost a fiver

[SueEllen]

So basically what thats saying is that, given sufficient resources, it's possible to game the Google predictive search results into appending a specific word or phrase to a search term. Now since it doesn't happen to the conservatives what does that say about who might be behind it?

contractoruk has done it as well

[FatLazyContractor]

I searched for 'yippie ki yay' and it threw up MF's name

[vetran]

There's more than some truth in the first suggestion. England sells the weapons, England invades other countries illegally to start war, England exports terrorists.

I get :

scotland is a part of uk

[scooterscot]

Finally the truth

There's more than some truth in the first suggestion. England sells the weapons, England invades other countries illegally to start war, England exports terrorists.

[I just need to test it]

Try:

conservative are

instead

[Pondlife]

So basically what thats saying is that, given sufficient resources, it's possible to game the Google predictive search results into appending a specific word or phrase to a search term. Now since it doesn't happen to the conservatives what does that say about who might be behind it?

It's from 2011 though so I'd have thought something like that would have been fixed by now.

What I think it means is that Google follows Dodgy Agent on twitter.

[DaveB]

Not new:

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...seo-13097.html

So basically what thats saying is that, given sufficient resources, it's possible to game the Google predictive search results into appending a specific word or phrase to a search term. Now since it doesn't happen to the conservatives what does that say about who might be behind it?

It's from 2011 though so I'd have thought something like that would have been fixed by now.

[NotAllThere]

Not new:

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...seo-13097.html

[VectraMan]

I get the same, nothing for tories or conservatives

What was their tax settlement again?

[MarillionFan]

Just tried Andy Murray Is


Surprised he supports Arsenal and sells drugs

[SimonMac]

I get the same, nothing for tories or conservatives

[DaveB]

This one is doing the rounds on Facebook atm. and does actually seem to have some basis in fact.

With predictive search turned on I, and others, get the following results.







Is it just a freak of Googles search functionality? Is it related to your own search history? Has someone been playing with search results?