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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. Re:Personalized search results by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly. With "how to have" my first auto-complete result is "a life"...

    Umm...

    Never mind.

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  2. Re:Crowdsourced content by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only on /. you could make a joke about something disgusting and someone replies with well thought out, helpful information you wish you wouldn't have gotten...

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  3. Sex by stealth_finger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Say it with me now. SEX! It's a thing, it exists, it's not a dirty word. Ok tutorials on youtube probably ain't great but why can't/won't TFA say the word sex. It's like they're talking about such forbidden fruit it's no wonder the kids end up so messed up, pretend it doesn't exist til they're 18 and then expect them to know all about it.

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