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Google Blocks Porn In Base, Patches Appliance

Posted by Zonk on from the tweaking-here-and-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The search giant has moved to fix a problem in Google Base which didn't properly block pornographic material in their search results. According to Google, the filter was broken for 'some period of time' but the company didn't elaborate. Nathan Weinberg could have been one of the first to report the incident on his blog, Inside Google, writing: 'Holy crap, there is a lot of porn at Google Base! Looks like, just like Google Images, Google Base could become a huge source of porn, and eventually a place where porn will be sold. I even noticed some movie reviews.'" They've also recently corrected a problem with their search appliance. geo_2677 wrote to mention a Securityfocus.com article discussing the rapid patching of the Google search boxes in response to a vulnerability.

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  1. new button by glaswegian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like they may need to add a new button to their site : "I'm feeling horny"

  2. Re:And where is the problem with porn? by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because this is on the company level. GOOGLE is doing this - not the feds.

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  3. NOT blocked! by TrumpetPower! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can still get all the pr0n you want. The problem was that SafeSearch was including pr0n in the results. Some dad uploaded pictures of his two-year-old daughter to share with family. But, when he searched for those pictures, he found a hell of a lot more than he was looking for.

    Considering the society we live in, SafeSearch is a good default--after all, you wouldn't want something that could easily get you fired popping up on your monitor just for doing an innocent search. It's also good of Google to offer the simple ability to tell them not to be your nanny.

    Cheers,

    b&

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  4. What a surprise! by Snamh+Da+Ean · · Score: 5, Funny

    Researchers find that a huge well designed freely accessible online database is used to store pr0n.

    In other news, scientists announce that snow is cold, and that bears defecate in the wooded environments.

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