The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved

Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by crispyporkbites on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:50PM (#25392619)

> That month, "is ted cruz the zodiac killer" was the second highest suggestion in Google's autocomplete for "is ted", but by April it was not in the autocomplete at all.[1][5] News.com.au writer Matthew Dunn suggested that Google was censoring the search term, showing evidence that it accounted for 89% of total searches when compared to other terms in the autocomplete

How often does google censor autocomplete? Does apple do this on their keyboard as well?

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Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by schoen on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:19PM (#25393002)

Google seemingly does this a lot (although I don't know if it's included in their transparency report or if anyone has tried to measure it -- both of which would be nice). You can report predictions as "inappropriate" (look at the lower right of a prediction list in a desktop browser) and you'll see something like

  Which predictions were inappropriate?
  [...]

  The predictions selected above are:
  Irrelevant
  Violence or gore
  Sexually explicit, vulgar, or profane
  Hateful against groups
  Sensitive or disparaging for individuals
  Dangerous or harmful activity
  Other

If Google agrees with the complaint, the prediction could be removed regardless of the popularity of the underlying search.

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Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last,... by gowld on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:03PM (#25393489)

It's censored in Google search, not keyboard.

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