Siri - An Anti-Abortion App?

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 02 December 2011, 01:44 IST
Printer Print Email Email

Another blogger opined “Siri is a front end to internet search engines. It’ll return the results of those search engines however good or bad they may be. Now Apple can be blamed for side-stepping Google and using a search engine that returns poor results for these specific queries.” He also said as to how various results show up faster than others on Siri owing to better and extensive databases. He further said that, “For other services - birth control and abortion clinics being two examples - Siri apparently relies on a much less extensive database than Yelp, with far less comprehensive tagging.”

Since, Siri is promoted as an easy way to get driving directions, send quick messages or find local shops, it is better to search for abortion clinics in Google Maps because this has an extensive database, which helps in finding virtually anything under the Sun and is just a few taps away. However, Siri’s major short-coming ought to be rectified by Apple because it is hurting the sentiments of people, especially women. If Apple does not attend to this problem now, it might just turn into a burning issue in the future.