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

Posted by msmash on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:00AM 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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Re:Personalized search results by Opportunist · 2017-11-27 02:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Exactly. With "how to have" my first auto-complete result is "a life"...
Umm...
Never mind.

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