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by agildehaus 3664 days ago
If you type just "hillary clinton", Benghazi is in the autocomplete, so this seems like cherry picking to serve a narrative to me.
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praiseyeezus 3664 days ago
Very cherry picked data. +crime seems to be supressed by Google, won't autocomplete for other First Name Last Name +crime searches.

Sensational and speculative

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SonicSoul 3662 days ago
im not getting that. 'hillary clinton ' on Google:

    twitter
    facebook
    email 
    age
on yahoo:

    email scandal
    indictment
    for president
    criminal charges
http://imgur.com/oxaQLOX
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agildehaus 3662 days ago
It changes based on who knows how many factors. Benghazi was showing for me when I typed the message, now it's not.

Google's autocomplete is likely based on recent searches, so it can suggest things based on very recent events. It will vary wildly.

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SonicSoul 3662 days ago
ok that's fine. but if Google is so current with latest searches it's still pretty weird that "crim.." shows nothing but positive results. surely other terms are more popular now than "crime bill 1994".

http://i.imgur.com/vt7rcov.png

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agildehaus 3658 days ago
Right now, as I type this, typing "hillary clinton crim" brings up "hillary clinton criminal video" in the autocomplete.

You have NO idea how their autocomplete works, so jumping to conclusions about Google filtering for positivity, specifically for a candidate, is entirely stupid.

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