Lately Google has been censoring the suggestions, or auto-completion, that you get as you type a query. They all disappear every time I type anything that could be remotely related to sex. Is there a way to turn this censoring off? I don’t see anything in the preferences page.
“Settings” in the top right corner. Halfway down the page is “SafeSearch Filtering.” Click “Do not filter my search results.”
Is that what you’re looking for?
I just tried “how do I g”, and while the notorious “how do I get my sister to sleep with me” isn’t up there any more, the first 5 results still include “how do I get pregnant”, “how do I get my boyfriend to last longer in bed”, and “how do I get my girlfriend to sleep with me”. I think all three of those could be remotely related to sex.
They recently changed how the suggestion thing works-- now it’s local. So you might need to move to a sleazier city to start getting dirty stuff again.
I rather suspected that the other day, when a search string for “mac” had “Mackenzie River Pizza” as the second suggestion (which, as it happens, was actually what I was looking for).
So, if you give your sister a mac, she will sleep with you?
Tris
I live in a “sleazy city,” and all I get is “how do i get my wife in the mood” at #8 and “how do i get pregnant” at #10. Not “how do i have sex with my wife” or “how can i get freaky with my wife and her mom and a horse,” but an ultra-euphemism search. All the rest have to do with passports and birth certificates and such. I bet the worst search terms are in Provo, Utah or something like that.
So now I’m picturing this board as full of pervs, who are also too lazy to type…
Well, it’s hard to type with one hand, you know.
OK, a board as full of pervs, who are also too lazy to type… *with one hand because they’re picking their nose.
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Especially your left one.
Mine said “How do I g…”
Get a passport
Get a social security card
Get farmville cash
What the heck is farmville cash??? OK time to look
Farmville is an insanely popular Facebook game. I tried it, dropped it, and caught holy hell from my wife and her aunt. So I got it back, then dropped it again because I don’t feel like putting the time into it to excel.
It’s seems to be influenced by what you’ve searched before, as well.
“How do I g…”
How do I get there
How do I get an abn number
How do I get a tax file number
How do I get a passport
How do I get ringtones on my iphone
How do I get you alone
:dubious:
Yeah, it’s eerie…
“How do I g…”
gives me:
How do I get off this laptop
How do I get off my butt
How do I get out of the house
How do I get a life
How do I get away from a time-sucking message board
How do I go from GQ to The Pit
How do I google “Google Suggestions”
Mine:
How do I get a passport
How do I get a new Social Security card
How do I get a copy of my birth certificate
How do I get pregnant
How do I get my wife to swing
How do I get to Dalaran
How do I get farmville cash
How do I get a girl to like me
How do I get a guy to like me
How do I get wifi on my ipod touch
Searching for ‘how do I’
How do I get a passport
How do I find my IP address
How do I know if I’m pregnant
How do I love thee
How do I delete my facebook account
How do I get on myspace at school
How do I download youtube videos
How do I look
How do I apply for food stamps in Florida
How do I delete my Myspace
So I have a lot of poor, romantic, social-networked, world-travelers in my area apparently.
Google’s algorithms are secret, I guess, but do depend on geography. My results were identical to Polycarp’s except that I wasn’t offered the choice of a swinging wife. Polycarp, do you live near me, and if so, is your province livelier than mine? 
(Instead of the “wife to swing” I got “how do i get on myspace at school”. Changing “moderate filtering” to “no filtering” had little effect. My daughter chats a lot on this machine; is that the reason I’m assumed to be schooler instead of swinging husband?)
how do I get to dalaran
Where the fuck is Dalaran? Also, I could have told them how to get ink out of clothes. And get a divorce in South Carolina. They should have come down to their local public library.
ETA post Wikipedia - Seriously? It’s a World of Warcraft thing? Jesus fuck, the weather is beautiful out there, losers! It’s like when you see those local favorites on Netflix and find out that everybody you see every day loves Tyler Perry and terrible comedians.