{"id":7021,"date":"2010-01-11T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:23:01","slug":"googles-islam-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/googles-islam-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Islam bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is claiming that the reason their search engine does not complete the phrase \u201cIslam is\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/google-islam.jpg?w=575&amp;h=277\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"575\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but does have suggestions for \u201cChristianity is\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/google-christianity.jpg?w=577&amp;h=517\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"577\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n<p>is not because they are censoring search results, but because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/01\/google-islam-censorship\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\" target=\"_blank\">they have a bug<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the query \u201cIslam is\u201d? Not a thing comes to mind for Google to suggest. (Search results are still there, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s enough to get some to conclude Google is censoring itself, perhaps as a result of complaints for suggestions that one guesses are just as flattering as those for other faiths.<\/p>\n<p>But Google says it\u2019s just a software problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a bug and we\u2019re working to fix it as quickly as we can,\u201d a Google spokesman told Wired.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bug obviously needs some work, because it has overlooked Mohammed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7023\" title=\"mohammed\" src=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/mohammed1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is claiming that the reason their search engine does not complete the phrase \u201cIslam is\u201d but does have suggestions for \u201cChristianity is\u201d is not because they are censoring search results, but because they have a bug: But the query &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/googles-islam-bug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,237],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-nothing-in-particular","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}