BAD AMAZON [wacks over nose with newspaper]

[steviesun]

You'll have read all this by now, but since we have the likes of Lady Chatterly's Lover being ranked, I'd say that this is such decades step back in the wrong direction it needs to be cross posted and people need to see this. I have found stuff on the first page of a google search that is defending amazon, we need to knock that shit off the front

Comments

[doylefan22]

From what I can gather it's not just GLBT material that's being hit exclusively, but a lot of what they consider to have adult or erotic content. Except there's plenty of stuff that's slipping through the net and there's plenty that isn't actually 'adult'. Looks to me like they've been basically indiscriminately stripping the ranking off anything with certain keywords without and actual human making the decision.

Seems to me that this is some kind of ham-fisted way of going 'won't somebody think of the children!'. I can the reasoning behind it - after all, I suppose the internet is a way that young people can get access to stuff they couldn't in a shop - but this is a clearly very stupid way of going about it.

Removing anything adult from the search won't protect their sweet little innocence. Besides, what can they see? The front cover? If they want to stop kids stumbling on something they shouldn't then maybe removing the 'look inside' feature for all adult material might be a good idea. As well as deciding what adult material actually is e.g. not text books for a start!

And what the hell are they going to do with DVDs? De-rank all the 18 rated ones?

This is really such a silly idea and what happens when you set up a bot to do the work rather than an actual person with common sense.

[steviesun]

Yes, it seems as though many of the stripped books are back in searches no. Certainly the one I double checked a minute ago is back.

As my database tutor said about computers - garbage in, garbage out.

This should have been something that they tested better. They, and hopefully others, should hopefully have learnt by now that the internet is 24/7, and people will notice mistakes.