Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Google censoring autocomplete suggestions for 'election fraud'

It seems that Google have taken action to ensure 'election fraud' fails to appear in their list of autocomplete suggestions. If you type 'election f' into Google, this is the list of autocomplete suggestions it comes up with...

No mention of election fraud.

The top four autocomplete suggestions are 'election forecast', election france', 'Election 1999 film' and 'election final results'. There's no mention of election fraud.

Google autocomplete suggestions are self-learning and come from real searches, so the more times someone searches for a particular term the higher it should rank in Google's list of autocomplete suggestions. Perhaps then, people simply aren't searching for election fraud?

Well, in the interest of fairness let's compare those four top suggested search terms with 'election fraud' to compare the popularity of each search term. Here's a comparison according to Google Trends with the red line representing searches for 'election fraud'...


As you can see, searches for 'election fraud massively outnumber searches for 'election forecast', 'election france', 'election final results' and 'Election 1999 film' combined.

This article was published on November 18, 2020. An archived link of the Google Trends comparison graph showing data as of that date, is available below:
archive.is/cdjBv

If you're reading this at a future date, you can monitor the current comparison at the link below:
Google Trends for election fraud

On a final note, here are the autocomplete suggestions for 'election f' when you use the Qwant search engine...


The top two suggested search terms are 'election fraud' and 'election fraud 2020'. Thankfully there appears to be at least one search engine that supports free speech rather than censorship.
www.qwant.com

Footnote: The exact autocomplete predictions may vary from person to person depending on where you are in the world. However, I tried it with and without a VPN and on every occasion Google failed to list 'election fraud' as one of its autocomplete predictions.

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