Maybe...maybe not. I first read this yesterday and when I did the search, I got the results suggested in the video. Today, I get the same as you. Perhaps they modified the search parameters in between?
Here’s an interesting search result in Yahoo vs. Google:
I typed in “Elizabeth Warren fa” in Yahoo and the first suggested result was “Elizabeth Warren Fauxcahontas”.
When I typed in the same thing in Google I got 4 results, none of which related to Fauxcahontas.
Just anecdotal evidence but still suggestive of Google protecting certain people they favor.
If you watched the video through, remember the group used google Tremds to test both the autocomplete suggestion and the “crime” term - and the autocomplete suggestion barely registered. That would seem to invalidate google’s contention that the autocomplete was generated by the volume of previous searches.
For another test I typed in “Warren fake” and got totally different results in Yahoo and Google. Yahoo suggested lots of fake indian results for her but Google did not show any.
The anecdotal evidence is getting stronger against Google.