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    Google Instant Search? REALLY?! Why is this the result???

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    • eyepaq
      eyepaq last edited by

      On Google.nl, searching from within Holland you will get as suggestion "mac book pro battery" for sure 🙂

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      • William.Lau
        William.Lau last edited by

        I got 'WEED'. I do not smoke pot at all and this is offensive!

        EGOL Bryan_Loconto eyepaq RobertFisher 4 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • danatanseo
          danatanseo @eyepaq last edited by

          Hah! That's really funny! 🙂

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          • EGOL
            EGOL @William.Lau last edited by

            Everybody getting "weed" is in a green state.

            Where are you searching from William?

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            • danatanseo
              danatanseo last edited by

              Take a look at the auto-suggest for simply "the best way to" -   "weed" is still in the picture. I was curious if I put in "related searches" what I would get...Apparently there are a lot of fat people with fleas who want to get high, predict the future and ask a girl to homecoming.

              🙂

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              • Bryan_Loconto
                Bryan_Loconto @William.Lau last edited by

                Why is this offensive? It's based on an algorithm. It's not Google's fault what the majority of people are searching for within the US.

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                • eyepaq
                  eyepaq @William.Lau last edited by

                  Come on !  That'snot offensive.  It's based on what people search. Do you need fake suggestions ? 🙂

                  Try searching for:

                  americans are ...

                  germans are ...

                  austrians are ...

                  Then you will see some offensive suggestions 🙂

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                  • eyepaq
                    eyepaq @Bryan_Loconto last edited by

                    Same from here in Austria.

                    Same from Germany (just pinged a friend from Germany to see his results).

                    It's world wide. 🙂

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                    • Bryan_Loconto
                      Bryan_Loconto @eyepaq last edited by

                      Right! This is far from offensive, in fact since majority of people are searching for it, I would be offended if Google hid it.

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                      • RobertFisher
                        RobertFisher @William.Lau last edited by

                        I sincerely apologize for having offended, I will speak with Sergey as I think its his fault...

                        Larry.

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                        • RobertFisher
                          RobertFisher @eyepaq last edited by

                          Well put Bryan,

                          Certainly doesn't offend me either, but not much does... 😉 Just easier to live that way.....

                          It is funny given that the algo is serving it up you have to wonder, are folks really needing to work on conserving their stash? What about hydroponics? Etc. Heck, maybe I just came up with a new site for affiliates of hydroponics!!!!

                          Thanks

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                          • EGOL
                            EGOL @RobertFisher last edited by

                            Yes, searches done from "the plex" are weighted thousands of times over in determining the instant results.

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                            • Unity
                              Unity last edited by

                              Looks like people in New Zealand also want to conserve weed - of the illegal variety. However when 'searching in NZ only' we are only concerned with how to destroy the everyday weeds from our gardens.

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                              • MarieHaynes
                                MarieHaynes last edited by

                                I just read this this week:

                                http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2012/10/google-instant-shows-suggestions-from.html

                                In the article they say, "_Google Instant suggestions used to only include popular queries. Last year, Google started to show dynamic suggestions _for the last words of your query. Now Google's suggestions seem to include excerpts from web pages."

                                If this is true then it doesn't mean that lots of people are searching for how to conserve weed but rather, lots of people are writing about it.

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                                • danatanseo
                                  danatanseo @MarieHaynes last edited by

                                  This just gets better and better.  Hmmmm, I wonder, does the fact that a blogger writing about "conserving weed" make them a "conservative blogger?".......I really have to go search that to see what I get..... 😉

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                                  • William.Lau
                                    William.Lau @EGOL last edited by

                                    Ha, I was joking. Its not offensive but I can only imagine what other searches are showing up with sometimes.

                                    I'm in NYC.

                                    Sorry with late response, Sandy and slowed my internet resources.

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