She said that when she called InfoSpace’s customer service line, she was told the situation would be reviewed. Tucci quoted the man on the phone as saying, "Well, if they put in the word lesbian, what else would they be looking for besides porn?"
How very charming. Not only did Dogpile.com equate all lesbian and gay topics with porn and force you to view results from adult sites, but then they thought it was appropriate to insult the public when they complain.
And the customer service person involved probably didn't even vaguely realize that his comment could be seen as insulting, which makes it even worse.
As of today, Dogpile has broken the link between "gay" and porn (and won't that sentence get me some interesting search hits); you're no longer forced into adult page results when you type the word, and you get a reasonable category index.
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