what's islam? don't ask google

[Amby 490]

Type "Christianity is" into Google and you'll get a list of common searches. But the engine appears to suppress results for "Islam is."

Type a few words into the search field on Google's home page and the engine automatically returns a helpful list of popular, similar searches for the words you've typed in so far -- a convenient way to find the right information.

Enter "Christianity is" and you'll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type "Judaism is" and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as "Judaism is false" and "Judaism is not a race."

But type "Islam is" into the search engine and Google's auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is "don't be evil," is censoring its search results.

According to Google's Web site, the query suggestions that appear as you type are drawn from from searches you've done (if you're logged in), searches done by users all over the world, sites in the search index and ads in Google's network.

The company also explains that "We try to filter out suggestions that include pornographic terms, dirty words, and hate and violence terms. If you encounter a term that should not be suggested, please let us know by posting in the Google Web Search Help Forum."

Perhaps the returned results are so inappropriate that all results have simply been turned off, an option some Internet users label 'cowardly.' After all, search for hot-button items such as "scientology is" or "Muhammad is" and the results are even more offensive.

A Google spokesman explained that the weird absence of results is just a software problem: "This is in fact a bug and we're working to fix it as quickly as we can." But the company would not respond to requests for clarification.

An intriguing corollary: Google offers search suggestions for future tense queries as well. Ask "Christianity will" and Google suggests "Christianity will end, it will disappear," and "Christianity will end." Ask the same about Islam and Google notes that "Islam will dominate the world" and "Islam will destroy Europe."

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/08/...ensoring-islam/

[Kevin and 10]

Going from penises to religion, where's the connection?

[alienlovechild 75]

Enter "Christianity is" and you'll find results that, while offensive, at least indicate common discussions on the Internet. Likewise, type "Judaism is" and Google suggests other, potentially offensive searches such as "Judaism is false" and "Judaism is not a race."

But type "Islam is" into the search engine and Google's auto-results pane mysteriously vanishes, leading some to conclude that Google, whose mantra is "don't be evil," is censoring its search results.

Buddhism will? Nothing.

Judaism will? Nothing.

Hinduism will. . . rule the world.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

anyone surprised? i'm not.

[alienlovechild 75]

Going from penises to religion, where's the connection?

Linga

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

anyone surprised? i'm not.

Look at the mayhem a simple cartoon caused. Google doesn't want to provoke an other-than-peaceful response from you know who.

[AlHayatZween 2]

Wow... i just tried it... never noticed that before...

[Kathryn41 3,205]

well, it appears to have changed. This is what I got: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Islam+i...8d6ef47431c6a4a It appears others have had the same complaint - and the complaints are lodged as well.

I did find this one interesting, though: Islam Is . . .

This Site is temporarily shut down for non- payment. Please have Pete Seda contact Datta Groover.

www.islam-is.com/

Edited January 9, 2010 by Kathryn41

[LaL 418]

well, it appears to have changed. This is what I got: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Islam+i...8d6ef47431c6a4a It appears others have had the same complaint - and the complaints are lodged as well.

I did find this one interesting, though: Islam Is . . .

This Site is temporarily shut down for non- payment. Please have Pete Seda contact Datta Groover.

www.islam-is.com/

It's not the returns after pressing "enter" though Kathryn. It's the auto-fill prior.

[alienlovechild 75]

well, it appears to have changed. This is what I got: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Islam+i...8d6ef47431c6a4a It appears others have had the same complaint - and the complaints are lodged as well.

There's no change when you look at the drop down box in the Google search field. Type "Islam is" and there's no common related search terms suggested below. Try it with other religions and you'll get different results.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

ah, thanks. The articles when it fills do suggest that it is a programming bug that Google is working on. Interesting - I never really use the autofill function

[scandal 951]

"Islam was" works.

"Islam should" works too, as in "Islam should be banned", "Islam should be destroyed".

Just to be clear, that's not what I'm saying - that's what Google's look-ahead feature returns.

Obviously Google isn't intentionally censoring anti-Islam phrasing, since those come through.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

By the way! what we white folks supposed to do? Seeeins you all be colorin us up! Be puttin that lovin, HATE all up inside! You mutha fvckas make me SICK! What ya say we do it in shades?

I will start: I gotta slight moon tan with a slight variance of brown. Now go get a color that you like! You FVCKIN IDIOTS get yo shite together would ya!

I love this world! when you all gonna quit countin colors?

**!

Edited January 10, 2010 by ={Rogue}=

[NickD 203]

Try Muslim instead of Islam, from http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/wais/cgi-bin/?p=1410 explains why. Wondered about this myself since 9/11. Found this subject confusing if not perplexing. Got the Old Testament and New Testament from the Christians, but the Jews don't have the old Testament, just the Testament. This guy, Mohammed, that established a theocratic state at Medina after 622 and began to convert Arabia to Islam. Basically by writing the Koran from taking bits out of both testaments and putting in own two cents in for what he thought was the truth. So you have a billion or so followers believing him, with Christians killing Jews, and Muslims killing both of them, and Christians and Jews fighting back. All over a bunch of words neither of the three can prove.

Not much different than sitting a Bear, Viking, and a Packer fan at a bar, fighting over which team is the best.

"Islamic vs. Muslim?

Posted on September 11th, 2005 Professor Hilton No comments Regarding the difference between Islamic and Muslim, Alice Whealey says: The simple answer: in Arabic “al-Islam”� is the religion while “Muslim” is a person professing Islam. In English usage, “Islamic” seems to be more abstract, while “Muslim” refers to the people professing Islam.� If one wants to avoid the appearance of overgeneralization, it is is generally better to say “Muslims think such and such” rather than “the Islamic view of such and such” because “Islamic” carries with it the connotation of referring to the entire religion, which, like all religions, is something of an abstraction.�

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More complex answer (which may give some hint of why there is some imprecision in the English usage of these terms): “Islam” is an verbal noun meaning submission, “Muslim” is a participle meaning “one who submits.” I have only seen in Arabic an adjective formed from “Islam” (islamii for masculine nouns, or islamia for feminine nouns (where a=ta marbuta ). I have not seen an adjective formed from the word “Muslim” in Arabic.This has to do with the rules for forming adjectives in Arabic, especially the so-called “nisba” adjectives.These rules are different in English, which appears to be more flexible about forming adjectives than Arabic insofar as you can in English make an adjective out of a term, such as Muslim, which refers to a person."

[Bobby+Umit 161]

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