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Google has banned items containing the string "gun" in the name on its e-commerce search platform, accidentally targeting many innocuous items:
Google Shopping, which allows users to compare product prices from thousands of online retailers, has removed all 'gun' search results - even if the product is not gun-related.
Online shoppers have complained about being unable to browse dozens of products such as Burgundy wine, water guns and music by American rock band Guns N' Roses. Searches for products including nail guns, glue guns and Arsenal Football Club's Gunnersaurus dinosaur mascot also returns the message: "Your search did not match any shopping results."
Google has banned weapons listings since 2012, however online shoppers have highlighted certain product unavailability since the Florida school shooting on Valentine's Day which left 17 dead.
The block could be circumvented using alternate terms such as "handgnu" or "fully automatic firearm".
Also at Engadget.
(Score: 2, Informative) by jmorris on Saturday March 03 2018, @02:10AM
No it isn't a hoax. Couldn't believe it when it broke on gab so I tried a few myself. Google Search was clean but when I picked shopping searches like "hot glue gun" would return zero hits. They really were that broken. One SJW could check code into the running production machines for what is one of the most critical pieces of Internet infrastructure that exists. That isn't a defect in one moron, it is a defect in the entire process that could permit that to happen. If they still had competent IT people in charge it could not possibly happen, therefore it says they do not have competent IT people making or enforcing policy. At Google. Ponder that until you know terror. If they are no longer under adult supervision their vast server farms are a ticking time bomb.