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YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results (buzzfeed.com)

Posted by msmash on from the getting-basics-wrong dept.

Several users are reporting that they found YouTube autocompleting search queries starting with 'how to have' with disturbing suggestions, including 's*x with your kids' over the weekend. From a report: A YouTube spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the matter is still under investigation. "Earlier today our teams were alerted to this awful autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it," the company said. "We are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion." We tried the same query on YouTube less than an hour before publication of this story, and we found "how to have s*x in school," and "how to have s*x with kids" were still surfacing in the results.

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  1. Personalized search results by BenJeremy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My impression was that your previous searches would influence your autocompletes. I don't get the same results, mine are quite innocuous.

    That being the case, I have to wonder about the people reporting this.

    1. Re:Personalized search results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I just tried it on a clean system that have never searched YouTube in its existence, and got the exact same results as shown in the linked image. If you aren't getting them, it's because you have enough history of searching YouTube (I pity you) overriding it.

  2. Re:Most likely it's just for fun by Wycliffe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Everyone has kids knows that the answer in how to have sex with kids is to call Grandma or a babysitter for the evening, to to a restaurant with your spouse and then go straight in a motel or if you feel fancy, search a quiet spot, park there and put newspapers on the car's windows.

    Exactly. It doesn't surprise me that "how to have sex with kids" and "how to have sex kids" top the list especially during a holiday weekend. How the "your" got inserted is a slight mystery but it's possible that either people are typing it that way or google is somehow inserting the your for some reason.