Google Suggests Suicide

My wife recently discovered that when typing the words "best way to" into the Google search tool in Firefox, Google provides the following search suggestion high on it's list, "best way to commit suicide." Click on the image above to see the full window shot.

My understanding with Google Suggestions is they are provided based on other peoples common searches. If millions of people search for "ice cream" then entering "ice" will result with Google suggesting "ice cream." It's an interesting technology I assume based on the idea that if someone has searched for it once, someone else will search for it again. But this suggestion above proves to complicate things. Suggestion tools usually serve to turn popular searches into exponentially popular searches.

Firefox on it's own, and Google should be safe for kids/teens. When monitoring our kids and teens using the internet we're usually very interested with what websites they're going to, but not other information displayed in the browser that isn't a webpage. For teens depression is rather common place, with some going as far as suicide. But for a kid whose in despair and looking up online "best way to something else," and it comes up with "best way to commit suicide" that search suggestion could be detrimental.

If you have kids, turn off the Google Suggestions in your browser. You don't know what ideas it's putting in their heads.