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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[meganeko_mausuu]

Unfortunately, I'm finding this to be mostly untrue, so far. If I type in "bise" I can get a suggestion of "bisexual quotes" but that is it. And once I type past the e, it gives no suggestions at all.

[liminalia]

Same here, but once I typed in bisexual I got plenty of useful hits.

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Auto-complete takes cues from actual user data. Since it was Just unblocked it takes time to populate. Best guess is that it will take six-months to a year to get to where Gay, Lesbian, Trans, et. al. are.

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According to Ms. Cheltenham in online comments, "If you type bisexual parenting or bisexual rights, the auto completes actually occur NOW when they used to not. But only these few terms are auto completing now because we've essentially started over with Google and all the stuff that would auto complete in 2008 hasn't been auto completed for a few years . . . Sucks to be starting over but due to the sheer numbers of our community, we can expect to see real change in 6 months to a year . . . not including this info in the press releases cause this stuff isn't a hard science but in my past experience it takes about that to see changes in search results."

[misslynx]

When I got as far as "bise", "bisexual quotes" appeared in the list, but as soon as I added the x, all the autosuggestions disappeared. Even when I completed the word "bisexual", no autosuggestions at all. But curiously, when I expanded it to "bisexuality", one autosuggestions appeared: "journal of bisexuality". But that was it.

I can get "bisexual rights" or "bisexual parenting" only by getting at least halfway through the second word. If I try typing "bisexual support" or "bisexual support groups", no autosuggestions whatsoever.

So I'd say either whatever changes they say they've made haven't taken effect yet, or they haven't actually changed very much. :-(

Another possibility: maybe the changes have to be rolled out incrementally across Google's various national sites? I'm in Canada, so any Google search I do defaults to Google.ca, not the American .com version. Even if I enter Google.com specifically, it reroutes me to .ca. So it may be that results are different for different versions of Google.

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It takes time to populate the suggestions used by "auto-complete" which as essentially user-generated by popularity.