So a couple of days ago Yahoo announced their new Yahoo! Search Assist feature. It's intended to help people find information faster, which, I think, is a noble goal in this information heavy and attention poor world.
However, I have to say, I was a bit taken back when I tried it out for the first time. I did a search for "jesus" a few moments ago and got this result:
I'm not a big Bill O'Reilly fan myself. However, I am offended that a recommendation taking the Lord's name in vain is ranking so high.
Of course, any automated system -- especially one as large as a Yahoo's recommendation system -- is going to have glitches. Even biases: Check out this post announcing the new Techmeme Leaderboard, which is another popular automated system.
And as a programmer by trade, I can't say I'm surprised. Systems like this are hard to get right. Nor do I believe for a second Yahoo is intentionally trying to offend me.
So I guess I'm wondering: in this world of automation, what's the proper Christian response to this sort of situation? Grin and bear it? Ask Yahoo to look into this? Any thoughts?
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