You were able to disable it? Please, how can I turn it off?
Jaysus, man, warn a person when something’s NSFLANMWGTYA.*
- Not Safe For Looking At No Matter Where Google Thinks You Are
I got to "Lisa’s L " before google suggested Lisa’s Liquor Barn.
I’m in SC
I get Lisa Blount first, then Murkowski second. No idea why.
It’s interesting that different people get different results.
Hm. I’m in Chicago, and my first hit is Lisa Madigan (State Atty General).
I got Lisa Kelly first, then Lisa Murkowski, then Lisa Blount.
Yep. I think Google can read your mind.
(my emphasis)
Incidentally, you’ll never get that since Google censors any search strings that are remotely porny.
Really? Because I get a long list of porn sites when I google “giant cock screamer”
Ooooh, right. I get it. Never mind. Carry on.
I got Lisa’s Liquor Barn after typing in “Lisa” but we seem to be in the same general area.
Huh. You’re right. I just tried typing in “lisa naked” and “lisa nude” and the guessing window shut down both times. I never noticed that.
I also discovered that I can now get Lisa’s Liquor Barn with only three letters, lis. And the second guess in the window is lisinopril, a medication for high blood pressure.
Which I take.
Spooky.
We definitely need to organize another Rochester dopefest.
Not at all unless you have “safe search” turned on. How are we supposed to find porn?
So it forces you to press “Enter”. BFD. It’s a little like SDMB’s 2-clik rule.
I think you’re missing the point. We’re not saying Google won’t search for porn (that’s probably a deal-breaker in the search engine trade). What we’re saying is that Google won’t anticipate searches for porn.
Which I can see the sense of. You’d have somebody looking for information on Lisa Nakamura and suddenly Google is asking him if he wants to go look at lisa naked pictures. Google is a lot less liable if it doesn’t raise any sex-related issues first - it waits for the user to raise the topic. That way it can argue “We didn’t tell you to go look at porn. You asked to go look at porn.”
I also got Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General when I entered “Lisa”.
It took me to “Lisa’s Liq” before I got to Lisa’s Liquor Barn as the first suggestion.
Google doesn’t need to do anything as creepy as looking through your cache. If you are connected to the Internet, you have an “IP address”, and, much like your USPS mailing address, your IP address reveals where you are. The finest details of your location are usually not available, but the rough area is. So, they’ll be able to tell if you’re in, say, Boise, but they usually won’t be able to tell what street you live on. At least not by geolocation alone.
Go to this site for a basic geolocation example. It should come up with your current IP address right away, but you can also put any address in.
I got “Lisa’s L” and it came up as the second suggestion. “Lisa’s Liq” got it to first position. I’m 1322 miles from Lisa’s Liquor Barn in Penfield, NY.
I just switched to the new AT&T UVerse service and most websites seem to think I’m in San Diego now. Although Google seems to return results around New Orleans, even though I’m not signed in.