Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like

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I’m not sure why, but this guy made a list of all the words Google Instant has blacklisted. Some of the words are pretty obvious but others are downright confusing as to why they are on the list.

Give it a try. Go to the Google home page. Type in "puppy" and see the many results that fill your screen. Now type "bitch" and admire the blank screen. In this case, the two words could mean the exact same thing. But Google Instant is erring on the side of caution, protecting the searcher from seeing something they may not want to see.
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I'm sure anyone looking for something on that blacklist wouldn't mind pressing enter while searching anyway.
 
Is this really a bad thing?

If I type the word Sextant in, do I really want to see the results for sex before I finish typing sextant? Does google really want the results for sex being displayed when a kid is searching for sextant at school?

If you're looking for the the three letter version, just press enter. For the rest of us just trying to look something up at work that has nothing to do with XXX content, thanks google.
 
The "blacklisted" terms bring up search content for me. Someone needs to turn off Safe Search, DOH!
 
Thank you for protecting me google. Where would I be without you!
 
beowulf7 said:
WTF is Google Instant? The link to 2600 is blocked for me.
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Google Instant is when search results appear as you type each letter instead of waiting for you to hit Enter after typing the entire word or sentence.

For example if you wanted to search for Microsoft, you start typing the letter "M" and you'll see Mapquest, Map of the UK, then you type "i" you'd get Michaels Store, and so on..
 
I'm not as cool as a thought. There are quite a few words on that list of terms that I hadn't even heard of before.

I showed it to my wife. Guess who's getting a "birdlOck" for Christmas.
 
Good grief. What a wonderful list. I see quite a few that will have to become Windows Server operating system names. //wrinkledstarfish :eek:
 
kllrnohj said:
Go to "google.com", start typing something in the search, behold Google Instant.
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Azhar said:
Google Instant is when search results appear as you type each letter instead of waiting for you to hit Enter after typing the entire word or sentence.

For example if you wanted to search for Microsoft, you start typing the letter "M" and you'll see Mapquest, Map of the UK, then you type "i" you'd get Michaels Store, and so on..
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westrock2000 said:
I don't know if it works with Internet Explorer 6....if your sitting at work trying it.
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Ahh, OK, that's what it's called. I knew about that predictive search on Google, but I just didn't know it had a name - Google Instant.

No biggie if they blacklist/censor certain terms from GI, as long as the user-typed searches themselves aren't blacklisted/censored.
 
beowulf7 said:
Ahh, OK, that's what it's called. I knew about that predictive search on Google, but I just didn't know it had a name - Google Instant.
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Actually, no, these people are wrong. Predictive search terms have been on Google for a long time. Google Instant is, when you are on the results page, you start typing in terms, and Google will run a new search instantaneous for each new character you type in.
 
MavericK96 said:
Actually, no, these people are wrong. Predictive search terms have been on Google for a long time. Google Instant is, when you are on the results page, you start typing in terms, and Google will run a new search instantaneous for each new character you type in.
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Um. I just said that.
 
^ ^^ I now fully understand Google Instant. I never noticed that part on the right where it says "Instant is on". I did a screen capture of a generic search of "what is".

Google also provides a link about Google Instant when you click on the drop down triangle.

Google said:
Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.

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