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Originally Posted by Sonist
Do you have any proof, that in the US at least, Google purposefully excludes items from searches, without telling the user?
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Google's filtering policies are
described here. They aren't mentioned on the front page but are explained if you're looking for it and willing to click through to the Advanced options.
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Many users prefer not to have adult sites included in search results (especially if kids use the same computer). Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your search results. No filter is 100 percent accurate, but SafeSearch should eliminate most inappropriate material.
You can choose from among three SafeSearch settings:
•Moderate filtering excludes most explicit images from Google Image Search results but doesn't filter ordinary web search results. This is your default SafeSearch setting; you'll receive moderate filtering unless you change it.
•Strict filtering applies SafeSearch filtering to all your search results (i.e. both image search and ordinary web search).
•No filtering, as you've probably figured out, turns off SafeSearch filtering completely.
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Amazon's filtering is pretty basic too - anything with an 'adult' tag gets filtered out of searches from the front page. What items get the 'adult' tag is the unclear part and appears to not be very consistent.