Google autocomplete predictions more often than not return funny and wild queries. Though they are fun at times, most of the times they tend to surface inappropriate predictions. However, Google is vowing to expand its policies to take on violent and hateful search autocomplete predictions.
The company will be rolling out updates in the coming weeks to reduce the possibility of it occurring. Autocomplete is especially useful for those using mobile devices to make it easy to complete a search on a small screen where typing can be hard. Google claims that on an average, it reduces typing by about 25 percent and is estimated save over 200 years of typing time per day.
These predictions are common and are trending ones related to what someone types. However, Google removes predictions that are against its policies; Sexually explicit predictions, Hateful predictions, violent or dangerous predictions. In the coming weeks, it will be expanding the policies related to hate and violence and any predictions that “advocate, glorify or trivialize violence and atrocities, or which disparage victims” will be removed.
Google is also providing an option for users to report using the “Report inappropriate predictions” which it launched last year, and appears below the search box on the desktop. As for mobile users, users can long press on a prediction to get a reporting option. Those using the Google app on iOS can swipe to the left to get the reporting option.