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If you want to see a very bad example of a broken search engine, use the Google voice Assistant to search for "how many raccoons can fit"

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I'm not sure that is "broken" but more like inappropriate. I read an article with a list of bad default results (as in with no filter bubble) that are way worse. Like searching for "tween" on bing shows auto suggestions like "tween swimsuits inappropriate" and "tween budding images". Same for all search engines that uses bing like Brave and DDG (at least at the time I read about it). It seems pretty obvious what those searches are looking for.

Replying to myself here but I reported the issue to Bing. If they don't fix this then not only are they serving inappropriate search suggestions but they also run the risk of a huge shitstorm. I'm amazed it haven't been fixed ..

I had to see what the outrage was about. What's the big deal with a sears like store selling back to school clothes?

Something tells me your results are a little more personalized or you are in a country specific search that isn't the US.

Shitstorms these days blow over quickly. Someone is always ready for the next big outrage.

i just did a regular text search for it and the top results where "how many raccoons can fit up your butt"... no voice assistant involved, and the destination urls were not google's.

For something a little more innocuous, type "Cicero" in the address bar in Chrome or Firefox and see what it autocompletes it to.

You mean the 4.5 millimeters? I believe that's a legitimate unit in use in the publishing business.

Yes, and it is; however, my (intended) point was that it is what almost no one is looking for when they type "Cicero", and if you simply search for Cicero by itself, you get nothing telling you that it's a typographic unit.

Wow, I was not expecting _that_ result.

Neither were the raccoons

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