Three weeks since it hit the headlines, Google is finally uncensoring the search for suggestions to complete the phrase “Islam is” – a fact that launched a thousand screenshots and irate blogposts (including on here) around the world. According to Google “the bug fix is in the process of rolling out, and suggestions will be visible within the next few days.”

When FoxNews.com had asked Google for an explanation on Jan. 8, a company spokesman explained that the weird absence of results was just a software problem: “This is in fact a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can.” But the company would not respond to requests for clarification, nor would it offer a timeline for repairing the problem.

You can smell the corporate BS all the way across the Atlantic, but because we know, and they know we know, and we know they know we know, we might as well just accept their change of heart with good grace, and carry on using whichever other search engine we changed to when we first became annoyed by this.

And until this morning, nearly three weeks had elapsed without a patch for the glitch, which clearly turned out to be more complex than initially assumed. When asked this morning for an estimated repair date for the bug, a Google spokesman would say only that the company was working on a fix, adding that “this is not an editorial thing.”

Absolute rubbish of course, but a sign that the leftist view of Google’s policymakers is flexible enough to respond to howls of internet derision. Which is nice.

So all that remains is to do a quick search for “Google is…” and smile wryly at the sixth suggestion.