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A mild-mannered man says his life was completely ruined after Google’s autocomplete feature convinced the government he was building a bomb.
Though he intended to search the web for “How do I build a radio-controlled airplane,” Jeffrey Kantor, then a government contractor, says the search engine auto-completed his request, turning it into “”How do I build a radio controlled bomb?”
Before he realized Google’s error, Kantor had already pressed enter, sparking a chain reaction he says resulted in months of harassment by government officials leading up to his eventual termination.
Man Says Google’s Autocomplete Feature Destroyed His Life | Gawker
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