Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Did you really mean abortion?

Amazon.com made a change to its search engine's automatic response to abortion, because it didn't seem that automatic. Typing abortion into its search engine generated the question, Did you mean adoption?

An official for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice was quite certain he did mean abortion, so Amazon.com deleted that question from that search.

Despite Amazon's claim that this is about mathematical logic, not a political stand, my search for abortion on their site caused an ad to generate for "abortion alternatives" in San Francisco. Hmmm.

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