The new iPhone will provide information for reproductive services

[Motown_Johnny]

My friend/boss has the new iPhone, and is as much a liberal as I am, so I told him about what I have been reading here.

He then said into the phone "find me the closest abortion clinic" (paraphrased). It said it didn't know where he was and he had to change some settings. Then it did give him the information for a clinic.

The problem with the answer was that the clinic the phone gave us information for is in Cleveland Ohio while we were in a northeast suburb of Detroit Michigan at the time (Roseville).

I will admit that the way he phrased the question might be a problem. I'm not sure exactly what question he should have asked but he did say "abortion clinic". So I decided to do a Google search for "abortion clinic Roseville Mi" the link is provided here:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=28&gs_id=2z&xhr=t&q=abortion+clinic+roseville+mi&tok=HN6cQJig0YoNehwPghMOJw&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&safe=off&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=abortion+clinic+roseville+mi&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=aa43ac570cbe89f3&biw=1024&bih=707




I will admit that there does seem to be a problem here. The phrasing on my Google search was very similar to what the iPhone was asked for and the results are very different. I can't swear that it is simply a search engine problem but I can swear that the iPhone did give an answer (a bad one) when asked that question.




*Disclaimer* I don't own any Apple products. I never have owned any Apple products and I have no plans to purchase any in the near future. I am not a fan and I am not here trying to cover for them. I am just providing information that what I have witnessed does not directly coincide with what I have seen reported.

[targetpractice]

1. I believe Siri uses Yelp for location/business searches...

Check your results against Yelp not Google.

Anyways, I can't believe I chimed in on this inane topic yet again.

[Book Lover]

2. Hrm

Try "women's health clinic" or "reproductive services". The problem may be simple indexing terminology.

edited to remove what may have read as a snarky post header

[Warpy]

3. Or Plan B or Morning After Pill or Rape Crisis Center

Yes, Siri doesn't know the answer to any of that stuff. It does, however, seem to know where the bogus "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" all are as well as "escort services" and every place to stock up on Viagra.

Siri is a sexist pig.

[Book Lover]

4. Thank you

I didn't see the details of the news stories until I came back to DU a short while ago. Now my original post seems pretty naive.

[Warpy]

5. If I don't get corrected three times by noon

it means I've slept in.

:hi:

[MattBaggins]

6. Sssshhh. Thou shall not speak ill of Apple on DU

Make a post dissing Android and it will receive a 100 recs. Posts speaking ill of Apple get rec'ed down every time.

Look at Carrier IQ posts where it was mistakenly called an Android problem, over 100 Recs. Post showing that Carrier IQ is found on IOS, 3 recs and silence.