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.xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine

Posted by samzenpus on from the tryin-to-catch-me-searching-dirty dept.

angry tapir writes "The company behind the .xxx top-level domain plans to launch a search engine in an effort to drive more traffic to .xxx websites and give pornography fans a more satisfying search experience. ICM Registry, which operates the 9-month-old .xxx TLD, is scheduled to launch Search.xxx this week, said Stuart Lawley, ICM's CEO. The new search engine will give users a more streamlined searching process, help protect them from viruses and malware and help guard their privacy, he said. The search engine has cataloged 21 million webpages from .xxx sites, he said. 'It's porn, only porn, all porn,' he said. 'There's as much porn there as anyone would need, I'd imagine.'"

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  1. Violet Blue story about sites suckered by that PR by Animats · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Violet Blue has a story about which major sites were suckered into publishing that press release. Slashdot FAIL.

  2. Unsafe Search, NOW! by TiggertheMad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I always wanted an 'Unsafe search' option. If safe search removes all the pervy links from a search, I want a button that ONLY returns pervy results.

    I really want to see what Google returns with 'unsafe search' turned on for truly boring and mundane words like 'Baseball', 'Database', or 'Tax return'. I bet you could find some pretty fucking weird sites with that feature....

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    HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
    1. Re:Unsafe Search, NOW! by KritonK · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Someone has already done that. I don't remember the URL, but what they did was submit your query to Google twice, once with safe search on, and once with safe search off, and then present you with the differences.

  3. Re:Probably a good thing by allo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    why migrate, if you can do both.