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8 points by GeorgeDewar 2 years ago · 10 comments

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GeorgeDewarOP 2 years ago

At the time of writing, this search will provide a top result saying "Help is available" and giving information about your country's crisis hotline.

"1236 800", "1236 + 800", etc. also do it, but 1236800 does not. The two numbers have to be separated and in that order.

It'd be interesting to know why.

  • h2odragon 2 years ago

    suspect it may be falling through a "best guess" type filter, and the default meaning assigned is "phone number". then some other system decides if you're looking for "phone number" but doesn't have anything else to work with, gives you a suicide hotline.

    Probably really involves a dozen more layers all run by people who never talk to each other.

g-b-r 2 years ago

Maybe it's just a number randomly part of some suicide-intentions-suggesting webpage anyhow

g-b-r 2 years ago

Well from Italy, for me, it doesn't do it

  • closewith 2 years ago

    It does happen in Ireland, but only with uBlock disabled (as it hides the div).

ulrischa 2 years ago

In Germany the result is displayed correctly

igotdlore 2 years ago

Turkey, does send to suicide hotline

testplzignore 2 years ago

1 CEO T00

ingenious_crab 2 years ago

happens in India too

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