[tor-bugs] #8839 [Torbutton]: startpage.com filters search results

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#8839: startpage.com filters search results
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks  |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  major        |      Milestone:     
Component:  Torbutton    |        Version:     
 Keywords:               |         Parent:     
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:     
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Comment(by nickm):

 And here's another one.  If you search for "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" ,
 hoping for the Edward Lear poem and punctuating its title properly, you
 get a bunch of cat and owl articles because that word for a cat is a
 naughty one.  (Sometimes you get the right poem way down on the page.)
 The advertisers present you with the right poem, though.  If you turn off
 filtering, you get the nice nonsense poem you wanted.

 You cannot search for "pussy riot" either, because of the same forbidden
 word.  WTH.

 I remark in passing that "Moby-Dick" appears to be unfiltered, as "Dick's
 Sporting Goods", as is "Dick Cheney".

 I could do this all night, but I shouldn't have to.  The pussy riot one
 should clinch this.  Let's kill this filter hard.

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