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Googe gif search nastiness

Other unpleasant weirdness..

Just yesterday following a conversation with my significant other about coffee I put the word "cortado" into the Google GBoard gif search on my iPhone.

I was expecting gifs relating to a short milky coffee.

Instead I got fairly graphic gifs of people cutting their arms/wrists/legs and other forms of self harming.

After 30min of searching I found some sort of feedback to report this behaviour.

Checking now it's still doing it (not that I thought Google would do anything after my message). The only idea I came up with is that "cortado" means 'cut' in Portuguese.

But why a UK English phone brings up wrist slitting instead of coffee I don't know.

A normal google image search doesn't show anything like this.

I'd be interested if anyone else sees behaviour on GBoard this or if it's just my phone that is fucked up.

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