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David_Gerard comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 July 2014 12:35:01PM 1 point [-]

A google on "Eugine Nier" for the past week brings up "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe. Learn more" Well, that's interesting.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 July 2014 10:12:02PM *  5 points [-]

(In any event, that's not his real name FWIW.)

Comment author: Tenoke 05 July 2014 01:55:19PM 1 point [-]

It says that for most (it is supposed to be all) name searches, when you are googling from Europe, except when the name is too ubiquitous

Comment author: David_Gerard 05 July 2014 04:02:38PM 1 point [-]

Doesn't show up for "David Gerard" or "Eliezer Yudkowsky".

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 July 2014 05:24:53PM 2 points [-]

It does for me if I include the quotes.

Comment author: gjm 05 July 2014 09:37:50PM 7 points [-]

And for me, with all of: my own name, "David Gerard", "Eliezer Yudkowsky", "Eugine Nier" and "Eliezer Arbuthnot" (a fake name I just made up, for which Google finds no results with the quotation marks, offers me results without them, and again gives the "data protection" warning).

So I think this is a bit like searching for "rat vomit" and getting "Buy Cheap Rat Vomit now" ads from eBay: it's just an algorithmic thing that gets inserted into certain categories of search.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 July 2014 10:06:21PM 1 point [-]

It shows up for me even with "Mencius Moldbug", whether with or without the quotes.