The perils of tagging underage girls
In an Aug. 3 story about automated linking programs on the Internet, The Associated Press erroneously described what happened when Yahoo’s Shortcuts software tagged the phrase “underage girls” in a news item. The story said readers who passed their mouse over the phrase were shown a pop-up window with multiple corresponding images from Flickr, Yahoo’s photo-sharing Web site. Yahoo Inc. says the software initially displays just one image, not multiple pictures, unless the user takes the extra step of clicking on the Shortcut. Link
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