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Google helps ease the pain of Brazilians over World Cup loss, filters search trend news

DateSaturday, July 12, 2014 at 8:04PM

Google said they don’t want to rub salt to the wounds of Brazil after its horrifying loss to Germany in the World Cup semi-finals. Google told NPR that the company’s experimental social newsroom has avoided covering some of the bigger Brazil-related search trends during the match because they were too negative. Producer Sam Clohesy said the decision was made based on pure sympathy and the desire to go viral. 

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