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Try "Donald Trump crim "

Bing autocomplete has "criminal charges" and "criminal record" second and third in the search.
Google doesn't return any of those results.

Try "Donald Trump moro " or "idio "
Bing and Yahoo have predictable autocomplete hits.
Google won't complete those words at all.

This doesn't look like a scandal.

Or let me put it in terms that some people will understand better:

OMG! Marissa Mayer is the CEO of Yahoo! Yahoo backs ALEC which is a right wing public policy organization that's also backed by the Koch Brothers and Walmart.

Yahoo! autocomplete returns disparaging results when you search Hillary Clinton. Now Marissa Mayer, due to her political associations, has to prove that she has not used her influence at Yahoo to manipulate autocomplete results to negatively bias against Hillary Clinton.

I was just reading about this on snopes today.
http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/

Here was google's response:

Google Autocomplete does not favor any candidate or cause. Claims to the contrary simply misunderstand how Autocomplete works. Our Autocomplete algorithm will not show a predicted query that is offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name. More generally, our autocomplete predictions are produced based on a number of factors including the popularity of search terms.

I would like to see an autocomplete @ function so I don't have to spell check whenever I reference someone with a retarded name

Did anyone freeze frame on the search autocompletes? I saw one that said "Who is the antichrist?"

>> ^Zonbie:
Nice cane


He's talking about your Awesome Bar.

>> ^blankfist:
When we're talking about "awesome bar", we're not referring to my junk, right? Because if we are, that's really weird that you all also call my penis the awesome bar.


For clarity and consistency, "Awesomebar" refers to the Fx3 feature and "awesome bar" (with a space) refers to blankfist's wang.

As a side note, I don't think the awesome bar is really anything worth discussing.

if I've helped one sifter, it was well worth the effort.

In reply to this comment by Octopussy:
Seriously, thanks!

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
y'all should let me know who was having issues with this feature, and who has solved that issue with this tip. I'm curious to see who else was frustrated with this.

I guess that'd be assuming that you're not all a bunch of basement-dwelling recluses.

Seriously, thanks!

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
y'all should let me know who was having issues with this feature, and who has solved that issue with this tip. I'm curious to see who else was frustrated with this.

I guess that'd be assuming that you're not all a bunch of basement-dwelling recluses.

I don't personally understand all the flak the awesomebar has gotten. I can't imagine disabling it.

There are extensions that emulate the old autocomplete from Fx2 though, if that's your bag, baby.

I got this, and the only appreciable difference I really noticed so far beyond the facelift was the changes to the autocomplete feature (namely how it sorts) in the url bar. I noticed this immediately and really didn't like it!

But I was able to fish around in the config and sort of change it back to the way I prefer..


namely with:

browser.urlbar.matchBehavior set to 2 .. which makes it so it's not searching the entire url string, but rather the beginning.. so if you type www.vid you're going to get www.videosift.com instead of possibly www.heyhowaboutthemvideosiftduders.com or whatever.