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Title: Yahoo Clues Filters Out Searches for Gay or Sex, But Leaves in Lesbian
Post by: Shana A on November 24, 2010, 09:29:05 AM
Post by: Shana A on November 24, 2010, 09:29:05 AM
Yahoo Clues Filters Out Searches for Gay or Sex, But Leaves in Lesbian
* 11/23/10 at 11:45 AM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/no_one_has_ever_searched_yahoo.html (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/no_one_has_ever_searched_yahoo.html)
Last week, Yahoo announced a new feature called Yahoo Clues. Like Google Trends, released four years earlier (ouch!), Clues shows users popular search terms, but over the past month and broken down by gender, age, and income. Sex educator and tech columnist Violet Blue discovered that Clues, which is still in beta, turns up zero results for gay or sex, a statistical impossibility considering that Yahoo is both (a) a search engine and (b) on the Internet. Like Google Instant before it, which excluded lesbian and bisexual, Clues looks like another bumbling attempt to make its features childproof and, possibly, heteronormative. But before the LGBT community/people who have intercourse get up in arms, consider that Clues persnickety search filter leaves in the words transgender and lesbian, which reached more than 90 on its 100-point scale, with the majority of the searches coming from men below the age of 24.
* 11/23/10 at 11:45 AM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/no_one_has_ever_searched_yahoo.html (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/11/no_one_has_ever_searched_yahoo.html)
Last week, Yahoo announced a new feature called Yahoo Clues. Like Google Trends, released four years earlier (ouch!), Clues shows users popular search terms, but over the past month and broken down by gender, age, and income. Sex educator and tech columnist Violet Blue discovered that Clues, which is still in beta, turns up zero results for gay or sex, a statistical impossibility considering that Yahoo is both (a) a search engine and (b) on the Internet. Like Google Instant before it, which excluded lesbian and bisexual, Clues looks like another bumbling attempt to make its features childproof and, possibly, heteronormative. But before the LGBT community/people who have intercourse get up in arms, consider that Clues persnickety search filter leaves in the words transgender and lesbian, which reached more than 90 on its 100-point scale, with the majority of the searches coming from men below the age of 24.
Title: Re: Yahoo Clues Filters Out Searches for Gay or Sex, But Leaves in Lesbian
Post by: samanta on November 23, 2012, 08:36:36 AM
Post by: samanta on November 23, 2012, 08:36:36 AM
but the pages are still there anyway. I don't think it affects anyone because when we start typing we already know what we're looking for, I mean nobody would type in "les" and then forget and google says "do you mean lesbian"
Title: Re: Yahoo Clues Filters Out Searches for Gay or Sex, But Leaves in Lesbian
Post by: eshaver on November 26, 2012, 10:49:49 AM
Post by: eshaver on November 26, 2012, 10:49:49 AM
This will simply go into yet another situation wherein a new term or name is given us . This in turn will be picked up by search engines and life will go on ............ ellen
Title: Re: Yahoo Clues Filters Out Searches for Gay or Sex, But Leaves in Lesbian
Post by: Numbsong on February 10, 2013, 08:22:43 AM
Post by: Numbsong on February 10, 2013, 08:22:43 AM
Why would they do that? I mean I thought that by now people would understand,were just like everyone,else!
Title: Re: Yahoo Clues Filters Out Searches for Gay or Sex, But Leaves in Lesbian
Post by: Lorri Kat on February 17, 2013, 07:00:42 PM
Post by: Lorri Kat on February 17, 2013, 07:00:42 PM
Sadly Zoey(Numbsong) there are many people and places that are still unaccepting.