Dear Herman Yutic,

I suggest that you take a look at the
following website:

http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/google-censorship.php
"Google Censorship - How It Works."

Finding an explanation for "Why" something is happening -
is usually a first step towards making an informed
judgement.

As the website will tell you - Google is undoubtedly the
most popular search engine globally.
However the results of a
search are affected by various government related factors.
They vary from country to country.
There are Government laws or government backed pressure,
where accommodation is an understandable reaction,
if nothing else. However documenting and explaining
what happens can inform public understanding.

For example, in Germany, Google censors certain Nazi
websites like Stormfront. In China - censorship occurs
on democracy protestors in Tiananmen Sq.
In the US Google censors sites containing child
pornography - and so on.

It's very easy to make uninformed judgements when looking
at things only from a narrow lens - you don't get the
full picture.

Periculitis,

How to begin?

Type into Google:
"Christianity is"
There will be a list of common searches.
Click on:
"Christianity is bulltish" and hit enter.
There will be 999,000 results.
(NOTE: I have used bulltish because a Remove the Profanity warning came up,
But I'm hoping you can work out what I mean.)

Now Type into Google:
"Islam is"
There will NOT be a list of common searches.
So continue typing until you have typed:
"Islam is bulltish" and hit enter.
There will be 1,140,000 results.

Therefore "Islam is bulltish" is an even more
common search than "Christianity is bulltish"
but Google is NOT showing it as a common search.
Google is not showing ANY searches for "Islam is".

The normal Google search response is NOT working for "Islam is".
I am suggesting that it must have been disabled by Google.
Can anyone think of a better explanation?

If it can be agreed that Google disabled the normal search response,
then can anyone suggest a motive other than censorship.

If it can be agreed that Google censored this search facility,
then can anyone suggest a motive other than appeasing Islamic sensibilities?

I got a similar result to that of Col Rouge. Henny Penny, the sky isn't falling. I saw no evidence that Google does favours one religion over another.

Foxy,
<It's very easy to make uninformed judgements when looking
at things only from a narrow lens - you don't get the
full picture.>
So what are you saying exactly?
That the U.S. government and the Australian government have asked Google to censor searches on "Islam is"?
What is your alternative answer to my proposition?
What is your better explanation?
Or are you denying the existence of a phenomenon
which is empirically demonstrable?

david f,
You're clearly not reading what I'm saying,
just as Col Rouge was not reading what I was saying.

Dear Herman Yutic,

Read the website I gave you.
It quite clearly answers your questions.
I don't understand what your problem is.

If what you're really after is the topic of
"Google Censorship," and you want to build a
case for why it does or doesn't occur on
certain subjects (as you claim that's what you're
after) - why not put "Google Censorship,"
in as a subject - (if you're not happy with the
website I cited).

I'm not sure it should be assumed that the suggestions are based on search results. It seems entirely possible that they're based on search queries. If that is the case, the the result could be explained by people not feeling a burning need to do searches that start "Islam is". I notice that if you put in "Islamic t" then Islamic terrorism" is offered. Put in "Islamic li" and Islamic Lies" is offered. If there's censorship here, it takes a strange form.