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Amazon Says Technology, Not Ideology, Skewed Abortion Search Results

Laurie J. Flynn writes in The New York Times:

Amazon.com last week modified its search engine after an abortion rights organization complained that search results appeared skewed toward anti-abortion books.

Until a few days ago, a search of Amazon's catalog of books using the word "abortion" turned up pages with the question, "Did you mean adoption?" at the top, followed by a list of books related to abortion.

posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2006 07:26:00 AM