Message from @Reaps
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@JDM_WAAAT JR carbine?
No. Freedom ordinance fx9
Nice
from elsewhere, checks out for me:
>on the subject of google search filters, check out something incredibly blatant I recently found. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=shop&q=kalishnikov+gun+replica - note that I (accidentally) misspelled "kalashnikov". Note that you get a bunch of search results, many with "kalashnikov" in the title. Note that there's a recommended spelling change to "kalashnikov". Click the spelling fix, watch all the search results instantly vanish!
well, I'm not using a VPN at the moment
hmm.
come to think of it, shouldn't make a difference
however
if I lop off kalash altogether and just keep 'gun replica'
I get results
perhaps it's a bit like the 'white inventors' thing
where it assumes because the word 'white' is used it flips the script
if you just search for 'inventors' then the white and black inventors show up
etc
as an example
get plenty of results
barely any m-16s though
meanwhile
@zahlman That was brought up in the past week, but according to Tim Pool that was implemented 6 years ago
huh.
@Legiondude that's.... *really awkward*.
like, "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" tier
idk what's going on with "white inventors", but the families thing is easily enough explained by everyone else's SEO, I think
you saw the m-16 results though, right
and the ak-47
we know how SJWey Google can be, but until I get concrete evidence otherwise, it would seem that the algorithm gets hung up on certain words and word combinations
but why would it? that's the thing
it's really hard to come up with an explanation other than a hard-coded intentional failure, even if they don't have a consistent principle for what failures to cause
neither does it make sense to me that they'd hard code it to fail on 'kalashnikov' but not fail on 'ak-47'
joe average barely would know wtf a kalash is
@zahlman It was implemented as a response to the Sandy Hook shooting
IIRC
huh.