Google shopping bans 'gun' searches... including glue guns

On Twitter early this morning, Ryan Fitz flagged something weird: Google Shopping returns no results for any search containing the word “gun.”

After some of my own searching, I found that Google Shopping would return results for search terms in which “gun” is a longer part of a word, such as “Gunsmoke” and “The Last Gunslinger.” But absolutely nothing for any search containing “gun.” Not even toy and recreational guns such as Airsoft.

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Included in this “gun” term whiteout are books, artists, movies, and songs with “gun” in the title, such as “Annie, Get Your Gun.”

Also blocked: “The Gun Book for Girls.”

Guns ‘n Roses? Blocked.

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