Before a recent policy change, the feature that suggests common searches provided the words "evil" and "bad" when users typed in the words "are Jews" and "are women." Google is tweaking its ...

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It is our somber duty to report, dear reader, that if you search the words “how to edge” on Google, the top autocomplete suggestion isn’t how to edge a beard, or a lawn, or a snowboard. Instead, ...

Predictive search results are often hit and miss, but Facebook's search bar is seriously playing up. Typing the phrase "video of" into Facebook's search bar is prompting some users to see sexually ...

Google is making it a little harder to find torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay by reducing its appearance in the company’s Autocomplete and Google Instant search features. If you search for the ...

Google offers an autocomplete suggestion of "Lying Ted" for "lying" but fails to do something similar for Clinton, raising questions. Type “lying” into Google, and it will suggest “Lying Ted,” the ...

An Irish hotel is pursuing legal action against Google over an Autocomplete option that suggests the hotel could be going into receivership. The Ballymascanlon Hotel, in Dundalk, County Louth, is ...

A Tokyo court approves an injunction against the Web giant after a man allegedly lost his job due to his name being associated with criminal acts in the autocomplete search function. Dara Kerr was a ...