Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Amazon's A9.com Search - Showing Adult Images

Amazon's A9 search has officially launched.

Though it uses Google's search results, they've integrated a number of features - one of the more notable ones is tacking on image search results along with the web results.

This is great for travel destination searches for instance:

San Miguel de Allende

However their adult filter is not working correctly.

For instance - an arguably innocent search for "asians" in A9 results in some rather non-innocent results.



Ditto for gay, black women, facials, and even, believe it or not, "bush for president".

I wrote A9 feedback, but let's see how long it takes to get fixed.