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Google Removes 'Bisexual' From Its List of Dirty Words

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Google Removes 'Bisexual' From Its List of Dirty Words
BY Michelle Garcia
September 11 2012 12:01 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/society/technology/2012/09/11/google-removes-bisexual-its-list-dirty-words

Since 2009 the word "bisexual," to Google, was only meant to find pornography. That caused the search giant to throw the word on a list of other banned terms, which were all deprioritized by the Google search algorithm, leading to a drop in search rankings for all bisexual organizations and community resources.

At the urging of bisexual advocacy organization BiNet USA, Google unblocked the term "bisexual," and phrases such as "bisexual quotes," "bisexual rights," and "bisexual parenting" are now automatically suggested to Google users as of this month.
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