Everyone knows that when conversing with people online, the veil of anonymity can make people say all sorts of things they wouldn’t utter in real life. Blogs, news sites, and other online mediums have been dealing with this problem for …

In the movie version of the TV cartoon South Park, the boys ask Chef how to make women happy. Without thinking about to whom he’s talking, Chef tells them the secret, and the boys go off in search of it. If they’d searched on Google with strict safe filtering, though, they’d never have found it, an anticlimactic event to which many women might sniff and respond, “typical!”

One thing we know, the feminist movement still hasn’t quite reached the advertising industry. At least they’re fair about it; men (fathers especially) could rightly complain about what bumbling, inept fools commercials make us out to be.

And that we’re depicted as breast-obsessed, beer-guzzling, football maniacs.

Yeah, and?

Once upon a time, if you typed “she invents,” Google tried to tell you it was “he invents.”  This applied to a lot of other queries, as well, and a number of people grew unhappy with these apparent examples of sexism.  Now Google’s programmers seem to have gone in and tweaked the engine, and “she” is allowed to invent things.

Google Ditches Sexist “Did You Mean”