[Rant] define an english person (NSFW Language)

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Type into google:
define an english person

Why do you think the top result of an English person definition is such?
And, will it change?
How soon and to which definition?

Bet your guesses here and we shall check it later in future

Update (changed a day later, the date depends on your local time):
From a curiosity of impact on SERP, I insert here that the top result of google searches by the phrase "define an english person" (without quotes) was wiki's definition of term "cunt"

Aaah, I see how it is "permitted". Anyway, I didn't type it (I copy&pasted)

The results were the same in any combination of words:
  • "english",
  • "person", "
  • define"
but without quotes
 
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AHAHAHA!!! If you got the same thing I got that's priceless!

And it will probably not change any time soon as the Google searches are generally listed in order of popularity. And since this has probably made the rounds and had a lot of people click the link to the wiki page, I'd think that it's pretty far ahead of #2. Google would have to personally look at it and remove it.
 
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Well, I'd like to ask a related question.
I already tried to ask it in English.StackExchange.com but was banned there for 1,000 days without any warning.
While by rules there the macimum period of ban was at that time maximum a week and only after 1st ban for a day.
Or, for other questions, I couldn't get sense of any from "standard" explanations of a Email sent to everybody banned there and unrelated to me or my behavior - low quality questions, etc.
See profile of my banned user in English.StackExchange.com

Do unprinted words exist in English?
For example, there a many volumes of different specific slang dialects in Russian that you would never find in in media, books, TV, etc since they are traditionally tabooed.

Are there such words in English?
Which ones?

Update:
Was writing already at deep night, sleepy.
Inserted link to my banned user profile in english.stackexchange.com, some perissology on it and corrected the syntax
 
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First off, banned from where? Second, if I'm reading your question correctly, you are wondering which English words are considered to be unusable in media? Hoo boy. There's actually a lot that can't be used in the media and that list is growing. The US has gotten WAY more conservative about language in media. For example, the Pink Floyd song "Money" has a line that says, "Don't give me that do-goody good bullshit." This song came out in 1973 and was played on the radio unedited until a few years ago when they started editing out the bull-shit part.

It's actually getting quite ridiculous here in that regard.

On this site there are only a couple words that are edited out and it's because I've deemed them to be always offensive. The first word is the one describing an Englishman from your link and the other is a derogatory name for a black person.
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By the way, I tagged the subject line NSFW language so we can more freely talk about this.
Generally the word nobody can say is fuck. Also banned from the media is shit, cock, etc.

What's really funny is the lengths that the media will go to try and get the message across yet stay within the rules. Like in Die Hard when he says, "Yippee ki yi, mother fucker!" they instead dubbed over it with, "Yippee ki yi, Mr. Falcon." Which is funny and makes no fucking sense at all!!
 
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I almost posted that, but didn't for a couple reasons. First, it goes really fast. Second, teh list has changed so much after the whole Justin/Janet Superbowl thing that it's hardly applicable any longer. Listen to the radio these days and DJs won't even make allusions to things like blowjobs and the like.
 
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Fleeting, live uses can be done as long as they are not planned or used in a sexual fashion.
 
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So, nobody won the contest.
Now the formerly top result is the second one and the top one is now:
"Define An English Person" C-Word Easter Egg or Google F-Bomb?"

Though, the sense of it didn't change
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Generally the word nobody can say is fuck. Also banned from the media is shit, cock, etc.
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That's a surprise to me because I hardly can recall many (American, Brittish) movies in English without engagement of "f*cking" word.
What is, then, the proper word to address shit? bullshit?
Why do Americans have names homonymous with obscenities, like Dick?

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First off, banned from where? Second,...
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Zeroth, I updated my original post.

Second, I am not that much interested in profanity intricacies discussion but in technical side of it.

Let me say, once I worked in a company where I couldn't Email (getting returns) to a guy whose Email that contained, as part of Email address, his name Dick.

Then, I am interested how the search engines define and correct the context of searches to avoid getting me unwarranted visitors or, vice versa, unintentionally being blacklisted.
Your explanation that people are clicking on 1st result is confusing to me:
  • I, for example, have never clicked it yet
  • it is unrelated result and should not count
  • I thought that search result rank was determined by referencing (backlinks)
  • Should I understand that if I search for a, say, "radar" but without clicking anything go to watch hardcore porn online,
    then google links searhes of "radar" to "hard core porn" searches?
    Should I understand that most of looking what is "an English person" then wants to understand who is cunt
  • Should I seek for such google "buffles" and immediately write about them or using such combinations of keywords in my blog to promote it in search engines?
  • Why hadn't this discussion gotten into top of results?
    As a matter of fact, I wrote about this 3 days before this thread in a Russian forum, it is also nowhere in the searches by this "define an English person" (without quotes) phrase
    BTW, the result was the same by ("an" is not indexable at all, AFAIK) in any combination of words:
    person define english
    person english define
  • et., etc.
Update:
This is just one example but ... I really do not want to continue deepening in the topic.
And recently internet is overfilled with discussions that google searches produce irrelevant results, and it is worsening with each Google's update.

Meanwhile I'd appreciate any link with explanations...
 
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