Moderator Note
Let’s refrain from extraneous political commentary in this thread, and stick strictly to the question in the OP. This goes for everyone.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
It is well known that Google tailors search results based on previous searches. So if you spend a lot of time searching “politician A criminal” or “party B war criminal,” that will affect the results when you search for results on the opposite party. But that doesn’t sound like what’s happening here. (ETA, I flat missed Senegoid’s post. What he/she said.)
I tried searching for “bernie madoff” (he is, uncontroversially, a famous living convicted criminal). None of the suggestions included crime or criminal, even when I started typing the letters c-r-i-m…
I wonder if this has something to do with that European Union “right to privacy” case–if I recall it was brought by a Spanish man who was annoyed that his prior crimes were the first results when you googled his name. Could what we’re seeing be a brute-force fix?