Last month Amazon made a change to its site. It changed the way its search engine reacted to the term "abortion" - so a prompt wouldn't come up asking if the user meant "adoption".
Amazon spokesperson Patty Smith said the prompt was not human intervention. Rather, it was because "Adoption and abortion are the same except for two keystrokes," Smith said. "They also, in this case, happen to be somewhat related terms." However, people who typed in "adoption" didn't see a prompt asking them if they meant "abortion".
The company decided to remove the prompt after an email complaint.
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