BiNet USA Wins Over Google in Search Term Dispute

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After a campaign by BiNet USA and bisexuals worldwide, Google has removed “bisexual” from its list of banned words.

Los Angeles CA, September 4th 2012 - BiNet USA is pleased to confirm that Google Inc. has unblocked the term “bisexual” from its search algorithm. Now that “bisexual” is allowed, terms such as “ bisexual quotes”, “bisexual rights”,

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[wlotus]

That is wonderful! Other than biphobia, I don't see why the word was banned in the first place.

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Yes it is isn't it. Realizing that a lot of this is history is from rumor, conjecture and back-channel chats, but here is what appears to have happened.

In 2009-ish Google slightly fiddled with some it's search algorithms to help keep pornish-type stuff from overwhelming every search on the internet. As part of that effort a black-list of so-called "dirty words" was created. When creating the list Google cast a very (very, very) wide net, I'd guess it's because they figured "better safe that sorry" and that it was easier to remove the stuff that was swept in by accident.

Quite a few of the words that were rounded up and black-listed pertained to the LGBTQ+ community, and while sure there was porn associated with them (cause lets face it there can and is porn associated with almost anything theses days), that is pretty much secondary to their regular important function of  allowing LGBTQ+ rights and community to flourish and grow.

By 2010 a petition to unblock the words "lesbian and bisexual" was up and gathering signatures,