This morning brings a nice column from Seth Finkelstein in The Guardian about sex, search, and “content filtering.” What I appreciate about Seth’s point of view is that he’s got deep expertise in the nuts and bolts of how these things work, he’s not given to conspiracy theories, but doesn’t give an inch to the [...]
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Why does the Google index of my blog stop on Dec. 27, 2006?
January 17, 2009 – 1:23 pm
Long time readers know that we’ve had more than our fair share of mishaps with Google. In fairness to Google, the commercialization of sexuality attracts malefactors all out of proportion to the effort it takes separate the wheat from the chaff. But knowing that is cold comfort when your livelihood is on the line. More over, this [...]
A Product of Laziness (Jen Fitzpatrick Explains Google)
November 26, 2008 – 12:42 pm
“Sergei didn’t know HTML, and he really wasn’t all that interested in learning. What he was really passionate about doing was building a search engine, was building a product that worked. And so he put together the homepage as a way to get the service up and running as quickly as possible. In many ways [...]
Dragged into Google’s Sex Ghetto, Kicking and Screaming.
November 23, 2008 – 9:13 pm
“As soon as you deal with [sex] explicitly, you have to choose between the language of the nursery, the gutter and the anatomy class” – C.S. Lewis “You don’t know shit from good chocolate, babies.” – Joe Dick As mentioned previously, I had been working on a post tentatively entitled “Does the Googlebot have Asperger’s [...]
Penis = Safe; Clitoris = Not Safe. (Why can’t the Googlebot find a single SafeSearch return for [clitoris]?)
November 21, 2008 – 9:00 am
Hello and welcome Susie Bright visitors. The post she meant to link to is here: Dragged Google’s Sex Ghetto —- Another entry for the Google’s Banned Words list: Clitoris. That’s right. Put your Google SafeSearch filter on “strict filtering” and search [clitoris]. Zero returns. Now try a Google SafeSearch “strict filtering” search for [penis]. 33,000,000 [...]
Talking to your children about sex. (How do you parse love?)
November 18, 2008 – 11:33 am
On most days my morning routine goes something like this: The alarm goes off about 6:30. I wonder down the hall toward the kitchen. Along the way I knock on Older Daughter’s door and call, “It’s time to wake up.” Once in the kitchen I put water on to boil and wake up my [...]
Reverse Engineering Google Suggest “No Fly” List (Who is Google Protecting?)
November 17, 2008 – 12:44 pm
Okay, so now you’ve read about it here, at Being Amber Rhea, and at Bacchus’s Eros Blog. Google Suggest will autofill somethings, like [stormfront] or [comstock films podcast]; but not other things, like [being amber rhea] or [violet blue]. Let’s call it the Google Suggest No Fly List. This is a fact. A lot of [...]
Thank Heavens for Warm Praise (in a Cold World)
November 14, 2008 – 10:00 am
“Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, [...]
That was no lady, that was my wife. (Peggy Comstock’s Blog.)
October 14, 2008 – 10:24 am
Some readers may have noticed that in 2008 I have not been as prolific with my blogging as in past years. While some of this has to do with things like the boat trip we made last Winter, it is also because I am starting to feel like I’m covering the same ground, but not [...]
The Googlebot says Comstock Films isn’t real sex (but then what does the Googlebot really know about sex?)
July 12, 2008 – 5:32 am
So what I was talking about when I said I saw some trends I didn’t understand is that about two years ago we started getting Google visitors on the search [real sex] and that was very good for our business. Visitors arriving on the search [real sex] were just as likely to return and ultimately [...]