since when does google censor image search?

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Vic Vega

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I use Bing for evething. I tried to use the Google image search but they've fux0red it up. If you click back after clicking an image it doesn't back out of the image like it used to, now it returns you to your previous page.
 

shortylickens

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I use Bing for evething. I tried to use the Google image search but they've fux0red it up. If you click back after clicking an image it doesn't back out of the image like it used to, now it returns you to your previous page.

Thats why I always middle click on the images.
 

SithSolo1

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For a while you could use the foreign versions, aka google.co.uk, but it appears those are being filtered as well now.
 

shortylickens

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For a while you could use the foreign versions, aka google.co.uk, but it appears those are being filtered as well now.

Yup. It finally happened. Google got too big and powerful for their own good and now they are the ones playing games and screwing over the end user.
Which is funny cuz the chicken littles were trying to tell us that years ago and we didnt listen to them.
 

Nintendesert

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And about the last straw for me with Google has been that it somehow signed me up for Google+ from my Gmail or Youtube and I had to dig up how to disable that shit but still have all my display names for even my email completely fucked up.

I'm getting tired of the constant nagging from Google for that Google+ shit and every other horseshit program they come up with. Google is the new nagware.
 

xanis

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I use Bing for evething. I tried to use the Google image search but they've fux0red it up. If you click back after clicking an image it doesn't back out of the image like it used to, now it returns you to your previous page.

Thank God, I thought I was the only one who was annoyed by this. It used to be if you clicked on an image, it would open in a new window/tab... now it opens in the same window, so I still always hit the back button and wind up leaving the page.
 

coldmeat

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I'm getting tired of the constant nagging from Google for that Google+ shit and every other horseshit program they come up with. Google is the new nagware.

It's funny because Google+ is apparently way better, and everyone would be happier using it if they would just listen to Google's nagging.
 
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Google image search has really gone to shit. Noticed the change a few months ago. They outright removed filter settings.
One week I found EXACTLY what I was looking for. Next week, I couldn't find a fucking thing, no matter how much I rephrased my search query.
You can still find some stuff, but you have to use more keywords for some content.
"Long Mint", for example. ALL unrelated SFW results. Get a bit more descriptive & you'll find stuff, but not great results that used to appear.

I try Bing every so often when Google doesn't pull up anything. But most the time it hasn't been any better.
 
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shortylickens

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Google image search has really gone to shit. Noticed the change a few months ago. They outright removed filter settings.
One week I found EXACTLY what I was looking for. Next week, I couldn't find a fucking thing, no matter how much I rephrased my search query.
You can still find some stuff, but you have to use more keywords for some content.
"Long Mint", for example. ALL SFW results. Get a bit more descriptive & you'll find stuff, but not great results that used to appear.

I try Bing every so often when Google doesn't pull up anything. But most the time it hasn't been any better.

What the hell is long mi OH YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!

:mad:
 

Gibsons

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Aug 14, 2001
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i'll be honest. i only recently found out about demi moores 18 year old penthouse shoot.

type in demi moore bush into google and you get censored results. works in bing though (with safe search off). i found out that i can add the word porn in there and then i get some hairy clam

...and here I am at work. :(

/look at clock
 

rh71

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and I thought Bing was only good for their birds-eye view on maps...
 

Ricochet

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i'll be honest. i only recently found out about demi moores 18 year old penthouse shoot.

type in demi moore bush into google and you get censored results. works in bing though (with safe search off). i found out that i can add the word porn in there and then i get some hairy clam

OMG..I mean OMG, that is quite a bush she's sporting.