"Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt."

...That is all.

By "geeks" I assume you mean people who bite heads off chickens in a carnival sideshow. I don't know any geeks (as in, people using computers for fun) who don't have at least _some_ data and hardware that they purposefully and protectively keep local. (See my sig.)

Word.

You are calling anti-Facebook sentiments "anti-social"? Do you know what anti-social means? It means you. I didn't see the guy you are rebutting telling anyone to die, much less in a fire. Look up anti-social in a dictionary before you type more.

You say my opinion doesn't mean much to you, but then you describe your use case. So, I'm going to assume you do want an opinion after all. Your use case makes sense, provided the host of the servers that collect and weight the autocomplete results is truly a trusted provider. I assume you have vetted your provider appropriately, to the extent that accidentally typed passwords or other secrets that may wind up in a search box are not a concern for you. Personally, I do not make these assumptions about every user of Google's autocomplete. I think the majority of them, if pressed, would give an answer that comes down to appeal to common belief/popularity as their reason for trusting Google.

Post after post about unfair downmod= 2. Inflammatory language from others + downmods, many. Mobile users and casual viewers aren't going to use parent links. It isn't a perfect system, and it works well enough for you, but may still need improvement for other users. Please consider that.

I find your perception of what autocomplete does as an overall system to be lacking.

Well, I guess we can expect this not to get modded up, even though it's absolutely true. Good observation. Moderation is clearly broken when I'm modded down as a flamebait troll because I asked what is essentially the framing question of this branch of the discussion, with the result that anyone viewing the forum with a filter at higher than -1 sees a series of disconnected comments and not the question I asked.

I'm in favor of eliminating all auto-complete. I believe that in all cases, the implementers of auto-complete gain information manipulation powers that are not perceived clearly by the users of auto-complete. Does that make me pro-censorship? Does it make me anti-user? Does it make sense to view this as a left or right wing American politics issue? Why am I seeing Cowards posting from those two sides, calling me names, as if I asked something dangerous?

I agree with this. It's interesting that my question was modded down. Who was afraid of my question? Anonymous cowards, I assume, who use their logged on sessions to mod things down they don't like to see, and their AC sessions to make actual comments when they are bok bok bok chicken.

I never use autocomplete on anything, for multiple reasons. If you use autocomplete, please stop doing that. You're part of the problem. This is my opinion, and it represents what I believe. Deal with it.

So, Google has no obligation to prevent its services from being leveraged by those who understand how it works from exploiting search suggestions as a means of disseminating their personal views. Is that what you're saying?

This made me laugh. Does CanHasDIY know something I don't? Does Fillion own the rights? Funny stuff if true, funny stuff if false.

Thanks for proving my point, Coward. It's fun to watch. At first.