The 15 Greatest Google Autocomplete Fails
In the hectic world of today, Google can be your friend, your confidant and your silent ally. Are you lost, unsure or uncertain? Then you can turn to Google for reassurance. However, part of the magic of Google is that it wants to help you “so it predicts what you might be looking for, before you’ve even asked for it, based on what other people have looked for before. And, in the privacy of their own homes, other people have entered some REALLY interesting things into the world’s favorite search engine. Here are 15 of the most bizarre autocomplete fails ever to have graced the face of Google…
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/google-autocomplete-fails.html
Searching “is it wr” (without the inverted commas) yeilds…
is it wrong to sleep with your mother… dog… teacher
Or try Googling “its hard”, “when I get old I” or “why is”
There can be some amusing results like this poem…
Search… “do you ever” yields…do you ever feel out of place
do you ever think of me
do you ever think of me in the quiet in the crowd
do you ever just
..Or distressing…
“A Port Macquarie surgeon is suing Google for defamation over an auto-complete search suggestion that he believes has cost him clients.
Google has been involved in several lawsuits around the world in the past year revolving around its autocomplete suggestions and has increasingly been held responsible for content on its search pages.
The suit, filed by Dr Guy Hingston in the US district court in California, claims that when you type “Guy Hin …” into Google the words “Guy Hingston bankrupt” appear in the auto-complete. He claims this is defamatory as he is not bankrupt.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/australian-surgeon-sues-google-over-bankrupt-autocomplete-20130122-2d480.html
And… “In October last year a jury in Australia found Google liable for $200,000 in damages after a complaint that its search results linked 62-year-old Melbourne man Milorad Trkulja to gangland crime. He had previously won a similar case against Yahoo.”