Oops: Yahoo puts Beijing Olympic mascots under Tiananmen Square headline
August 4, 2008
Spotted on Shanghaiist: this screengrab of a howler by Yahoo. Mascots for the Beijing Olympic Games pose on Tiananmen Square, beneath a headline about commemoration of the 1989 massacre.
Apparently an 'automated gallery feature' pulled in the picture based on the keyword 'Tiananmen'.
It turns out that keywords can't perform value judgments. Who knew?
More on it in the Guardian.
Nathan Midgley
Martin Couzins
