It is quite interesting. Today I tried out the following: Enter “donate to ” and look for auto completion from Google. I tried out A-Z, meaning: from “donate to a” to “donate to z”, see some screenshots below.
Each letter leads to a completions suggestions. Even x, y and z. For instance, one could donate to Yemen or Zaka, whatever that might be. There are only two letters with no suggestions: “r” and “t”. Why? Because “t” would suggest “Trump” and “r” the Republican party. Or is should, according to the demand to donate for Donald Trump. Other journalists tried this out before me and “donate to t” suggested completions to “trans youth”, “trussel trust” up to “transgender india”. One could assume these were not the options the majority were searching for at the moment...
It seems that this manipulation was even to obvious for Google, so they removed the two letters “r” and “t” completely.
Now imagine what happens behind the curtains, when they even do manipulation like that in the open...
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