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Originally Posted by GlennD
(snip) Do a search for 'gay erotica' on Amazon. Over 2000 hits. Gosh, their filter must be broken! Or, maybe their filter is smart enough to include adult items if your search phrase contains adult terms. (That's only a guess, I have no real idea.)
Or, do a search for 'Joy of Sex'. You'll find not only the various editions of the straight sex manual, you'll also find 'The Joy of Gay Sex'. Again, homosexual item not being filtered.
And oddly enough, if I type in 'Heather', the first autofill suggestion is "Heather has two mommies".
Can anyone give me a current example of a book that ought to show up in a search, that isn't?
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Perhaps you haven't been following this very closely; that's fine, we all have our separate interests that keep us busy--but when the OMGWTFBBQ hit the Web, Amazon said they would fix it, and as far as I can tell, set about doing just that as quickly as they could. Which was the only sensible thing to do, whether or not it was, as claimed, an accident. So of course you can find _Heather Has Two Mommies_ now; that's probably one of the first ones they fixed--they know just as well as we do how bad that looked once word got out.
And you can find a lot of the other stuff. Well and good; that is as it should be, and I'm happy to hear that is still the case.
What I wonder now is whether they fixed everything. There really is no practical way for me to find out. I don't know that there's even any practical way for *them* to find out.
But one of the social costs of a (let's give Amazon the benefit of the doubt) mistake like this is that people begin to wonder... How do I know this is an honest result?