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BuzzFeed reported<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that several\u00a0users complained a YouTube search was autocompleting with paedophilic phrases.<\/p>\n It is suspected it could be part of a coordinated trolling effort.<\/p>\n \u201cEarlier today our teams were alerted to this profoundly disturbing autocomplete result and we worked to quickly remove it as soon as we were made aware,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are investigating this matter to determine what was behind the appearance of this autocompletion.\u201d<\/p>\n Google has apologised for autocomplete results in YouTube where the phrase \u201chow to have\u201d returned suggested searches such as \u201csex kids\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":92509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25441,1638,25443,1713],"class_list":["post-122365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-autocomplete","tag-google","tag-search-results","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0YouTube TV gets Android picture-in-picture support<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"