YouTube Autocomplete suggests paedophiliac phrases

Google's Autocomplete search term prediction function has been found to be returning 'profoundly disturbing' paedophiliac phrases like 'how to have s*x with your kids' and 'how to have s*x kids' for searches for 'how to have' on its YouTube-owned property.

Because Autocomplete and some other YouTube search algorithms are based on popularity, it was suggested to Buzzfeed and other media publications that a coordinated effort could have caused the searches to appear higher in results than they would organically.

The incident raised questions about the apparent ease with which Google's search-related algorithms could be manipulated.