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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by Sephr on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @08:51PM (#2146206)
> I don't even think this is accurate. Granted, there is something off about how the terms stall out in instant

There's no stalling, it's completely disabled and will not suggest anything until you type the entire word.

> In contrast, if you type out a sex term it quits instant and auto complete and never restarts them

So? How does that have anything to do with justifing blocking BitTorrent terms? If I type "install bitt[orrent]" or "install ut[orrent]", I get no suggestions as it is clearly blocked.

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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by citricsquid on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:10PM (#2146269)
I would guess people are searching "bittorrent [copyright material]" and someone has had their lawyers shout at google for it, because it could be seen as prompting users into pirating. Like "torrent li[nkin park]" might have got them in trouble because before the person was just searching "torrent li[nux]" so now a user who wants a legit torrent for linux is being told oh hey you can pirate linkin park albums too!

(I don't agree that this is right, but it seems the sensible explanation to me)

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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by ecuzzillo on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:27AM (#2146719)
Er, sorry, accidental downmod from 4 to 3, intended upmod to 5.
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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by Semiapies on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:19PM (#2146299)
It's rather obviously not "completely disabled" if I can type "bittorrent" and then get auto-suggestions.
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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by Sephr on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:35PM (#2146333)
By completely, I mean there's no suggestions whatsoever, and I said "until you type the entire word".
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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by njharman on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:34AM (#2147710)
You don't get to redefine the definition of "completely" just to make your argument sound better.
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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by Sephr on Thursday January 27, 2011 @03:44PM (#2149382)
Suggestions are completely disabled while typing the blocked words. If I said partially, that would imply that suggestions are still given while typing the blocked words, excluding the blocked word itself.
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