Google Universal Search Means Looking For Raccoons Is No Longer Family Friendly
A reader tipped me off to this. Search for raccoon, and Google Universal Search puts some pictures up at the top of the page: See it? Third one over? I didn’t know a dog and a raccoon could, well… To be fair, Microsoft Live does the same thing: Yahoo also shows the happy couple, but […]
Danny Sullivan on August 3, 2007 at 1:12 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
A reader tipped me off to this. Search for raccoon, and Google Universal Search puts some pictures up at the top of the page:
See it? Third one over? I didn’t know a dog and a raccoon could, well…
To be fair, Microsoft Live does the same thing:
Yahoo also shows the happy couple, but only if you specifically do an image search. Ask doesn’t, clearly exhibiting a bias against raccoon-dog love.
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