Google Changes Settings to Make Porn Harder to Find

[stu2002]

Andrew O'Day says people searching online for smut will have to be more specific now that Google has changed its settings to make porn harder to find. Apple allows its mea culpa app -- Google Maps -- to return. And day or night, soon there will be no escaping Toys R Us.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-tries-to-stop-accidental-porn-2012-12-13-111073339

 

[thoughtomator]

if you want porn just turn off your ad blockers

 

[donnay]

I bet that pisses off many members in DC!

 

[stu2002]

I bet that pisses off many members in DC!

Yup

 

[Anti-Neocon]

Jokes aside, I think this is a very poor business decision.

 

[presence]

You have to admit google images was getting pretty bad there. For a while even the most benign image searches: baseball bat, cucumber, chain, rope etc. would bring up some pretty freaky pics.

 

[jmdrake]

Jokes aside, I think this is a very poor business decision.

Actually it's a pretty smart business decision. People who want porn will still be able to find it. People who are simply trying to find dog collars aren't going to get S&M sites. Google and other search engines have been doing this for a while. Years ago a simple search for "toys" would bring up sex toys on the first page of the Yahoo search engine.

 

[BenIsForRon]

Why is this in "individual rights"? Does every American have a right to easy access to porn via Google?

 

[KrokHead]

One of the first things I knew how to do when I got on the internet when I was 11 was to find porn, I doubt it will make things difficult and infringe on "rights"

 

[mrsat_98]

Why is this in "individual rights"? Does every American have a right to easy access to porn via Google?

you got it.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Why is this in "individual rights"? Does every American have a right to easy access to porn via Google?

Srsly, though...I don't use google. I hate Big Brother.

 

[tod evans]

One of the first things I knew how to do when I got on the internet when I was 11 was to find porn, I doubt it will make things difficult and infringe on "rights"

When I was 11 we had a black and white television and "porn" was the sears robuck catalog...

 

[heavenlyboy34]

When I was 11 we had a black and white television and "porn" was the sears robuck catalog...

lingere section FTW!! lolz

 

[Confederate]

Is it hard to find porn without google?

 

[heavenlyboy34]

btw, someone should forward this to fire11. He would like this for his blog.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

You have to admit google images was getting pretty bad there. For a while even the most benign image searches: baseball bat, cucumber, chain, rope etc. would bring up some pretty freaky pics.

how would you know?

 

[Jingles]

Jokes aside, I think this is a very poor business decision.

Probably, but it is not just porn that get's filtered out. I never used safe search because I want to see everything of what I'm searching. Safe such also tends to filter out things with curse words and the like as well.

 

[TER]

Actually it's a pretty smart business decision. People who want porn will still be able to find it. People who are simply trying to find dog collars aren't going to get S&M sites. Google and other search engines have been doing this for a while. Years ago a simple search for "toys" would bring up sex toys on the first page of the Yahoo search engine.

Well said!

 

[XTreat]

This is an outrage.

 

[Petar]

I demand that Rand Paul introduces "Right To Porn" legislation immediately.