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Amazon, unlike convenience stores, has no children as customers. You have to be 18 to buy from them. I understand they want minors to be able to view their content, if not purchase it, but as children can't make purchases there at all, there's much less reason to filter the searches.
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P.S. BTW, technically Amazon is a site for adults, by definition: they require a credit card for you to have an account. If adults can make purchasing decisions, presumably they can make search decisions as well.
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This isn't entirely accurate. While it's true that you need to be an adult (have a credit card) to BUY at Amazon, minors can and do SHOP at Amazon. My kids look at Amazon all the time, and if they see something they want they come to a parent to try to convince us to buy it for them.
A lot of the descriptions and pictures of items (not just books, obviously) are most certainly adult content. If those items start showing up on unfiltered searches to kids, you're going to see not just irate parents, but irate schools and businesses. Amazon doesn't want to have to put an access agreement up("click here to certify that you're over 18"), nor do they want to start showing up on filter lists that many responsible parents, schools and businesses use to block their kids/students/employees access to adult content.
Personally, I wouldn't have any objection to being able to modify the filter settings (as long as it defaulted to it's current settings - I don't expect that my kids are going to browse to a settings page). But Amazon is just trying to use good business sense, they're not trying to keep you from buying what you want to buy.
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If adults can make purchasing decisions, presumably they can make search decisions as well.
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Presumbly adults know how to find adult material if they want it, too.