Maybe it's an ebay thing and they think you're french? :) [Weren't there French legal cases against yahoo and possibly ebay over this?]
Hen On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Bill Holt wrote: > Browser set to accept cookies? Two N's in the spelling? > > ---------- > >From: Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> > >To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > >Subject: Re: MacGroup: Safari Censorship? > >Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2003, 11:15 PM > > > > > OK, I'll bite. I tried a search (using Safari) on e-Bay for Nazi and got: > > 0items found for Nazi (that's a cut from e-Bay). What gives? > > > > Anne Cartwright > > > > > > On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 05:56 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: > > > > I decided to do my own search on eBay just to see what would turn up. > > Using the n-word as a search and Safari as my browser, I got zilch. So I > > tried the others. Zilch. I then went for a biggie and tried "Nazi". > > Zilch. > > > > On a hunch, I switched back to Netscape 7.0. > > > > Strangely enough, searching for the n-word, I got over 300 hits. > > Searching for Nazi gave me over 1400 hits. > > > > Interesting how Apple is censoring us without us even realizing it. What > > else is being kept from us? > > > > > > I had no trouble getting 1498 hits on Nazi with Safari and 74 hits on the > other. > > > > I don't believe that Mick and Kike will ever return nothing without a > > mistake because the singers Mick Jagger and Kike Dee will certainly be > > represented in the music section. There are also many cracker barrels and > > tins for sale in the antique section. > > > > All these show up for me with Safari. > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > > > > > Anne > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
