Is Google protecting Islam over other religions?

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Is Google protecting Islam over other religions?
OP - January 08, 2010, 10:33 AM

See this video for the information, and then try the google searches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qott73xMyLk&feature=sub&fmt=18

I think youtube is breaking, several videos have not ebeen working the last few days. If it doesnt work, try to copy paste the link and delete the space.

http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=Qott73xMyLk&feature=sub&fmt=18

We keep hearing about how Jack Straw or the French government have mentioned the veil and our doing so puts us in the same boat as them. How so? I want a ban on the burka, neqab and child veiling.

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Reply #1 - January 08, 2010, 10:54 AM

I just tried it.... WTF?

It is not google.... it is a miracle! WOW! Allah is protecting Islam after all!

La Ilaha Illa Allah and ~~Mohamed~~ GOOGLE Rasulo Illah!

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Reply #2 - January 08, 2010, 10:58 AM

I HAD to try it too...
Hahahaha O_o

Absurd.

I am gonna try it in other languages too

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Reply #3 - January 08, 2010, 11:04 AM

Uhm, the same experiment in italian doesn't work.
Not enough hits on those search terms.

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Reply #4 - January 08, 2010, 11:07 AM

I tried 'zoroastrianism is' ...

It provided 4 hits.

I thought Islam was the second largest religion in the world, maybe it is even larger than Christianity now, so I dont think it has anything to do with there not being any popular searches for 'Islam is'.

Also 'Sikhism is' provides around 6 hits. Nothing for 'Jainism is' though.

So according to Google, Islam is as popular as Jainism.

We keep hearing about how Jack Straw or the French government have mentioned the veil and our doing so puts us in the same boat as them. How so? I want a ban on the burka, neqab and child veiling.

you can either defend women or you must defend Islam. You can’t defend both

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Reply #5 - January 08, 2010, 12:10 PM

If you want a benchmark for bias; look at the number of anti-Jewish videos put up by Muslims but are never taken down even after several have flagged it; then there are the numerous flagging campaigns by Muslims against non-Muslims and yet nothing happens to their own religious videos.

Well, it is either a conspiracy (which I doubt) or the system is just shit (which is more than likely to be the case).

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Reply #6 - January 08, 2010, 02:44 PM

I think this is not only for 'Islam is', typing 'Americans are', 'British are', 'Indians are' or any nationality for that matter will return no recommendations. Or even 'Jews are', 'Christians are' are also censored. However typing 'America is', 'Britain is', etc. gives recommendations. I tried something like 'Computers are' 'Pancakes are' to make sure it is not the 'are' that is the problem and it gave me recommendations.

So apparently Google has some sort of mechanism that somewhat messed up in including Islam, or maybe some crybabies emailed them about it (you know how some Muslims are about these kind of stuff) and they figured "let's just shut them up and no one will notice anyways", or simply Google is scared, which is very unlikely considering that also 'Muslim is' gives recommendations and some are unpleasant.

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Reply #7 - January 08, 2010, 08:27 PM

Google says this is a bug.

There are other weird behaviours.

E.g. "Europeans are" will show suggestions while "Africans are" will not. "Iranians are" will show suggestions while "Arabs are" will not. "Egyptians are" will show suggestions while "Germans are" will not. "Swedes are" will show suggestions while "French are" will not.

"Forestry is" doesn't show any suggestions. "Monotheism is" doesn't show any suggestions. "Masonry is" doesn't show any suggestions, while "freemasonry is" does show suggestions.

Here is another weird behaviour that shows that the software doesn't used a predefined list but determines what to do dynamically:

"2 " will give you results, among them "2 guys 2 cup". However, "2 g" will NOT give any results. But "2 gu" will give you results, among them "2 guys 1 cup". Also, "2 go" will give results and "2 gr" will and "2 ga" will.

Why does "2 g" not show any results? I guess it is because "2 g" will have a lot results related to "2 girls 1 cup" in the suggestion list and google will drop the whole suggestion list if a certain number of found suggestions are offensive. So, "2 " will not be dropped, because there are enough "clean" results, only the offensive ones will be removed, while for "2 g" there are lots of offensive results. So, instead of just removing the offensive result, the whole suggestion is dropped and no results are shown.

Why would the result for "Islam is" be dropped by that algorithm? It may just be coincidence, like with why are there results of "swedes are" but not for "germans are"?
It could also be because maybe many sites that use the term "islam is" are internally classified as racist or as violent by some google algorithm that maybe classifies sites by what terms are used on the site or by what images on the site look like.

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Reply #8 - January 08, 2010, 08:29 PM

Nineberry is like a precision laser of pure reason and facts.

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Reply #9 - January 08, 2010, 08:32 PM

LOL

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Reply #10 - January 08, 2010, 08:33 PM

Or to make up a conspiracy theory:

You remember that story about the doll saying "Islam is the light"? In fact, when you use the same feature at yahoo and bing (microsoft search), it will suggest (among other things) "Islam is the light". So, maybe it was a bunch of offended Judeo-Christian-Humanists that petitioned Google to remove it

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Reply #11 - January 08, 2010, 09:01 PM

Quote from: Kafirist on January 08, 2010, 08:32 PM
LOL

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LOL!!!!

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Reply #12 - January 08, 2010, 09:04 PM

I just tried typing 'Islam Is' into my Google searchbar but nothing exciting came up. When I typed just 'Islam' the first thing that came up was 'Islam 4 UK' Anjum Choudhary's outfit but when I clicked on the link all I got was a blank window.

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Reply #13 - January 08, 2010, 11:18 PM

It's a bug. A few weeks ago, there were results for "Islam is." I'm sure in a few weeks there will be results again.

This whole kerfuffle, which I've seen on blogs, shows how even non-theists can be prone to ridiculous fucking conspiracy theories without much evidence.

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Reply #14 - January 09, 2010, 12:11 PM

It show's up for me. Actually alot more than for the other religions mentioned.

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Reply #15 - January 09, 2010, 07:03 PM

wow.. hilarious

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