To be shocked at Google? WARNING UPSETTING

[glossyflower]

I am horrified at Google. My little girl seems to need constant entertainment so to get advice I went on to Google and typed "4 month old baby bored".
Google tends to suggest searches for you before you've typed in the full sentence and one suggestion was "4 month old baby raped"
Of course I never clicked on it, it was probably news article links but I don't want to see upsetting stuff like that being suggested by google.
As for news articles reporting on cases I do wish they'd at least word it differently. I know there are sick nasty people in the world but I just don't want to hear about it.

If anyone dared to touch my little girl now or in the future I would rip their faces off

You are being a bit over the top I think.

It was suggesting what was a news headline not long ago. Not suggesting what you might like to see....I think that since your baby is so small, you're still in the very sensitive phase that many new Mothers have....I had it...I was SO upset by the smallest violence on TV after I gave birth.

Try to put it out of your mind and maybe put some parent locks on your computer.

All the ISP has parental control. Try turning that on. Or alternatively, just on your computer.

It wouldn't turn off that autocomplete I believe. (My work has websense and I can search for things like torrents for illegal movies. But I can't get to the links). Google is just auto completing from high ranking indexes.

I am over sensitive and always have been (for that reason I don't buy newspapers or read womens weekly mags anymore). I will adjust the settings. Xxx

It's just straight forward predictive text in the search engine: it takes the most likely combination of letters you're in the process of typing and suggests the verb you're trying to find.

Unfortunate, yes. Unpleasant , definitely. Googles fault? Maybe - they could put some restrictions in. Something to be this angry about - I don't think so. You don't know what, if anything, would have come up if you'd clicked the search. It wasn't even at link stage.

I tried, and the suggested words were "sleep" "development" and "routine"

Does Google offer suggestions based on previous searches (depending on whether it can recognise your device) or a wider 'most searched' basis?

I thought google came up with the most searched for phrases in order? Hence if I were to type in Mail (if I were looking for the Mail Online for some reason) I get Mail order brides, then Mail online, then Mail chimp. Or I did yesterday anyway.
If you look for Mumsnet it tends to come up with Mumsnet AIBU first I think.
It's not Googles fault.

I'm using the toolbar on my iPhone. Typing in "4 month old baby" comes up with (in this order) development, sleep, raped, food and schedule.
Just horrible

I just tried via Google on my phone and I got: Sleep, routine, cold, food, teething.

Not sure why it predicted raped for you on your phone. I understand why it upset you though.

meditrina for me it is raped, sleep, weight, feeding, food, feeding, toys, cough and fever. I don't think it's based on previous searches. This is my work computer and only I have the log in. I wonder how it comes up with the order when what we are getting is different.

Just reread your last post and went to my iPhone toolbar and it did come up that time. I'd gone on to Google itself before.

You completely misunderstand how auto complete data is compiled on Google. YABU to let your daughter use Google without turning on Safe Search settings. FFS.

I get sleep, development, cold, food

Beau the ops dd is a baby!

I wish my dd could use google at 4 months old beaunatt

I think it might also depend on the browser you're on or how you search for it. If I type it in to Google Chrome main bar at the top (where you can also search from) it comes up with sleep, development, routine.

If, on the same browser, I go to the Google website and type it in, it comes up with sleep, routine, cold. So different words (although a lot more relevant than what you got).

Maybe people who use e.g. IE are on average creepier than ones who use Chrome? Interesting anyway.

If it does upset you (as I can imagine it does!!) you could try to contact google. At the bottom of the Google web page (if you do a search) there's a link to send feedback. Alternatively you could try going through this link to report it, but I'm not sure if that covers it as it seems to be for actual illegal content (e.g. a website showing that kind of thing, rather than search results for a news article).

Oh I misread thought the op's child was using the phone.

Still massive misunderstanding of how Google auto complete works. Maybe there has been a news story using those words, hence why it's a popular search term? Why are you blaming Google exactly?

Yep, came up on my iPhone too. Clicked on it and the links are a news story from the start of August.

Google don't control what comes up, they have algorithms that do it for you, and given that this is a recent news item, that's why it's there.

I got sleep, routine, constipation from my desktop.

And today's google picture thingy is lovely - needs sound!

For me, google comes up with

Sleep
Routine
Cold
Food

Does it depend on what you have read/searched for in the past?

glossflower it is a search engine, it doesn't actually know what the words mean If you don't like it making suggestions, turn that option off.

You are being oversensitive and hysterical. And I'm not sure what you wanted to achieve by posting? I'm predicting three pages of 'Oooh how terrible'. Riveting.

i thought this thread would be about syria and perhaps the photos

reallyop get a grip or change predicitive searching

Hugely oversensitive and huge overreaction.

You want news articles to word it differently. Please do give us your suggestion on alternative words for rape.