I have no beef with Google doing this, but "censor" is a fine and accurate word for any kind of voluntary suppresion, even if it's now as pejorative as Nazi. Network TV censors rarely stop an entire show from airing, for that matter. e.g. "The show was heavily censored before airing". Let me guess what's next: a fatuous civics lesson on how it's not really "censorship" since Goog isn't the US government.

I put censor in quotes because it's barely censoring - the results are still there in the search, they just don't autocomplete.

TorrentFreak here...

They do censor these words right?

The title is correct but we can't always include all nuances. We hope most of our readers will take the time to at least read three sentences :)

I considered " Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More From Their Autocomplete and Instant Services Until A User Types In The Complete Term" but that seemed a bit too much.

But yeah, I'm very ashamed.

Suggested title:

"Google no longer autocompletes The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More".

Or.

"Google no longer suggests The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More in search bar".

"Title generates fewer outraged upvotes and pageviews".

How about "Google stops catering to lazy incompetents"?

Not all editorial action is "censorship", the sites in question are still indexed. And I think you are aware why they are doing it considering the pressure on them from politicians and harmful laws introduced all the time. The title is link-bait.

Torrentfreak does not feel shame.

I wholeheartedly agree.