Google’s Nexus One censorship extends further than cuss words

News of Google’s Nexus One censoring swear words has been all over the Internet for the past week or so. The phone’s voice-to-text feature doesn’t transcribe cuss words, instead replacing them with hash marks. In a personal experiment, author Neil Gaiman found that the built-in censor could be circumvented by following the swear word with the words dot com. But it seems the Nexus One is much more prude than initially thought. Boston resident Zechariah-Aloysius Hillyard discovered Google went to ..read more

If you can’t say anything nice, Google’s Nexus One will censor you

Ah, Google. Always looking out for us. Have you ever noticed that when you perform an image search on Google, there’s a “SafeSearch” option? It can be strict, moderate, or off altogether, and this will affect the types of images that appear in your search results. Depending on what you’re searching for, this actually isn’t a bad idea. It can keep undesirable images from appearing when you’re searching for medical or anatomical information, for example, which is great when you’re ..read more