{"id":8398,"date":"2012-02-09T10:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2012-02-21T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:34:11","slug":"search-engine-chacha-embarrasses-android-app-developer-with-hate-group-approved-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/search-engine-chacha-embarrasses-android-app-developer-with-hate-group-approved-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine ChaCha Embarrasses Android App Developer With Hate-Group-Approved Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s only been four months since Iris, the leading imitator of Apple’s Siri<\/a>, was released to the Android Market, and Dexetra, the app’s developer, has a lot to crow about. The company claims<\/a> to serve up to a million answers every day, and the number only seems to be increasing. Fortunately, the fledgling company and “Q&A service” ChaCha announced a partnership<\/a> early this year, and all seemed to be going well.<\/p>\n Going fine, that is, until last weekend. When you’re trying to appeal to a broad and youth-oriented audience, a young upstart company is probably best to steer clear of things like this:<\/p>\n [yframe url=’http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c_TPxXEnmG4′]<\/p>\n There are two problems here. First, especially on issues like abortion, having such a specific and somewhat dogmatic answer is probably a bad idea, given the wide range of potential users. It wasn’t just abortion, though; other answers about rape, race, and religion were discovered by leery users<\/a> like Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz.<\/p>\n Secondly, the video from SPLC-certified hate group Family Research Council is a problem. Just a quick primer on the FRC for the uninitiated: FRC President (and the voice on the above video) Tony Perkins scolded President Obama<\/a> three years ago for not siding with Bush’s Axis of Evil. Peter Sprigg, one of their top spokesmen, is on record<\/a> as wanting “gay behavior” (I assume he means flower arranging) to be illegal and wanting to forcibly deport<\/a> gays. And Senior Vice President Tom Minnery was caught lying<\/a> in a Congressional hearing last July.<\/p>\n