industryterm:search suggestions

Facebook apologises for search suggestions of child abuse videos
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/facebook-apologises-child-sexual-abuse-offensive-autocomplete-terms

Searches starting ‘video of’ returned autocomplete suggestions of sexual videos and child abuse content Facebook has been forced to apologise after it spent hours suggesting bizarre, vulgar and upsetting searches to users on Thursday night. The social network’s search suggestions, which are supposed to automatically offer the most popular search terms to users, apparently broke around 4am in the UK, and started to suggest unpleasant results for those who typed in “video of”. Multiple users (...)

#Facebook #algorithme #manipulation

Firefox 55 Released, This Is What’s New
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/firefox-55-released-whats-new

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Firefox 55 features a number of welcome improvements in memory usage and startup time, and offers ’search suggestions’ in the URL bar. This post, Firefox 55 Released, This Is What’s New, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Google search suggestions by country

▻http://flowingdata.com/2013/08/08/google-search-suggestions-by-country

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Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a candid peek into what people look for in the world. We’ve seen insecurities change with age and stereotypes of states in the US. Noah Veltman banked on the locality of suggestions for a country-specific view of the world. He shows suggestions for the same query for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

#google #marrant