.xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine

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.xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:32PM 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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first post by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-26 16:38 · Score: 5, Funny

what... too busy searching to post?
1. Re:first post by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-26 17:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27, @12:38AM (#41474035)
  what... too busy searching to post?
  what... login information too hard to type with one hand?
  
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Obligatory Simpsons by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-26 16:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Nerd: I invented a program that downloads porn off the internet one million times faster.
Marge Simpson: Does anybody need that much porno?
Homer Simpson: Uuh-huuh-uuuh, one million times.
Oh, thank goodness! by Shoten · 2012-09-26 16:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can finally find some porn on the Internet. It's been so difficult before now...

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1. Re:Oh, thank goodness! by o5770 · 2012-09-26 17:14 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  The entire premise is stupid. There is no such as "too much porn" because people have different interests. While you can pretty much find anything - and if you can't, there's people who do clips when you order from them - some niches can still be quite small. And let me tell you, people love their niches. For example I like japanese massage porn. If that's what turns me on, then hairy grandmas 58 isn't going to help much.
2. Re:Oh, thank goodness! by jhoegl · 2012-09-26 18:15 · Score: 2
  
  OOOHHH PORN. I thought they were talking about searching for sea creatures that whales eat.
3. Re:Oh, thank goodness! by louic · 2012-09-26 19:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I just hope that they will build a suitable safesearch filter before the entire .xxx domain will be full of science websites and bug reports.
4. Re:Oh, thank goodness! by Brucelet · 2012-09-27 00:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Slow down, some people are into that!
5. Re:Oh, thank goodness! by Bent+Mind · 2012-09-27 03:47 · Score: 2
  
  Not if most of those 21 million webpages reference the same small set of licensed images.
  
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Never such thing as too much porn by Deathnerd · 2012-09-26 16:44 · Score: 5, Funny

"There's as much porn there as anyone would need, I imagine."

Challenge accepted, sir.
1. Re:Never such thing as too much porn by slack_justyb · 2012-09-26 17:48 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "There's as much porn there as anyone would need, I imagine."
  
  You sir have grossly underestimated the Internet porn surfing public. Additionally, if this TLD gets really big and makes good on it's promise, I'm upping the ante to a six monitor configuration as opposed to the current two.
2. Re:Never such thing as too much porn by jandersen · 2012-09-26 19:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  You sir have grossly underestimated the Internet porn surfing public.
  Hmm, I wonder. You see, the porn industry has been complaining for a long time about hard times (yes, I know, a pun of sorts, but not intended). I think the truth of the matter is that pornography only really attracts those who have been unable to find anything better in their lives, which is really sad. Pornography seems always to be disappointing - plasticky looking Ken and Barbie types mechanically doing things and looking utterly bored. I am, by the way, from Denmark, where people are incredibly open-minded and at it all the time, everywhere, as we all know, so I know what I am talking about.
  Sex is nice, but vastly overhyped. Like anything enjoyable, it becomes trivial when you have had enough, and that happens much sooner than you imagine as a teenager; and it's a good thing really, because there is so much more to life than screwing around.
3. Re:Never such thing as too much porn by Hentes · 2012-09-26 21:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Six monitors? You are into fat chicks, aren't you?
4. Re:Never such thing as too much porn by hairyfish · 2012-09-26 23:36 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Pornography seems always to be disappointing - plasticky looking Ken and Barbie types mechanically doing things and looking utterly bored.
  You quite clearly don't get out much. The great thing about internet porn is the variety. Yes there is plasticky bored looking good looking people having sex, but there is also ugly people, amateurs, young, old, fat, skinny, gay, trannies, hairy, shaved, dwarves, giants, every race, colour, creed all doing all sorts of things to each other for your pleasure. Everyone has different desires and pornography caters to most of them.
  
  I am, by the way, from Denmark, where people are incredibly open-minded and at it all the time, everywhere, as we all know, so I know what I am talking about.
  Well clearly you don't since your view of porn is severely limited.
  
  Sex is nice, but vastly overhyped. Like anything enjoyable, it becomes trivial when you have had enough, and that happens much sooner than you imagine as a teenager; and it's a good thing really, because there is so much more to life than screwing around.
  I can only assume you're doing it wrong.
Brazillian midget transsexuals by afgam28 · 2012-09-26 16:46 · Score: 4, Funny

"Porn is very personal," he said. "You may have been looking for Brazilian midget transsexuals, and you're sitting there at home with your kid or your wife saying, 'Let's go on a holiday to Brazil,' and the next thing, it's suggesting Brazilian midget transsexuals from your previous Google search history."
I guess that's still better than having your family accidentally bump into the midget transsexuals during the family trip to Brazil :)
1. Re:Brazillian midget transsexuals by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-26 17:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Or at least preparing them for when they DO :)
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But... by bmo · 2012-09-26 16:56 · Score: 5, Informative

... I have no idea how they are going to beat Bing. Bing is the ne-plus-ultra of porn search. It's amazing.
Honest.
Go to video and turn off the kiddie filter and search what your little black heart desires.
Google for work.
Bing for porn.
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1. Re:But... by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-26 17:55 · Score: 2
  
  Go to video and turn off the kiddie filter and search what your little black heart desires.
  Um... just for clarification, do you mean 'safe search'?
  
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2. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-27 06:35 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You're back here after only 15 minutes?
Violet Blue story about sites suckered by that PR by Animats · 2012-09-26 16:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

Violet Blue has a story about which major sites were suckered into publishing that press release. Slashdot FAIL.
Poor Google by Memophage · 2012-09-26 17:01 · Score: 5, Funny

It'll be interesting to watch the dip in Google's search traffic as half the web searches instantly move over to this site.
1. Re:Poor Google by slack_justyb · 2012-09-26 17:44 · Score: 2
  
  I don't see anything wrong with a desire to categorize information on the Internet. Yes, .com porn will still exist, but if the company that owns .xxx can keep the sites under it in check and make it a safe place to find porn, I think that will attract more people than ever, which in turn draw more to the domain. I like to think of it as the Las Vegas of the Internet. So long as the place can be kept within a certain degree of control, it's all good to let loose.
2. Re:Poor Google by sumdumass · 2012-09-26 18:09 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  I know a couple people who have registered a lot of .xxx domains and are planning on mirroring junk sites like churches and stuff.
  I guess their master plan is to get real porn providers to eventually buy them in order to protect their .com names or something. It won't be long before the .xxx domain landscape is just as useless as anything else.
There's as much porn there as anyone would need by DSS11Q13 · 2012-09-26 17:15 · Score: 2

'There's as much porn there as anyone would need, I'd imagine.'
This man needs a bigger imagination!
Finally by gaelfx · 2012-09-26 17:31 · Score: 2

Searching for 'thong' won't turn up a bunch of photos of some geeky asian dude!
Probably a good thing by asmkm22 · 2012-09-26 17:45 · Score: 2

This could work out well. One of my main criticisms behind the whole xxx TLD has been that it wouldn't really lessen the amount of porn under other TLD's. Having a search engine designed for it, especially if they limit the results to only the xxx TLD, would give incentive for companies to migrate over to xxx.
1. Re:Probably a good thing by allo · 2012-09-26 21:17 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  why migrate, if you can do both.
Re:Could even replace Google... by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-26 17:53 · Score: 2

That's weird, iddn't it? It was a lot easier to find porn before Google came along.

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In Soviet Russia by Roachie · 2012-09-26 17:57 · Score: 2

... porn finds YOU!

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Unsafe Search, NOW! by TiggertheMad · 2012-09-26 19:25 · 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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1. Re:Unsafe Search, NOW! by KritonK · 2012-09-26 20:36 · 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.
2. Re:Unsafe Search, NOW! by Nigel+Stepp · 2012-09-26 21:08 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  That was monzy.
  
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3. Re:Unsafe Search, NOW! by sociocapitalist · 2012-09-27 03:27 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That was monzy.
  Slashdotted
  
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LMFAO... by UltraZelda64 · 2012-09-26 19:36 · Score: 3, Funny

"Porn is very personal," he said. "You may have been looking for Brazilian midget transsexuals, and you're sitting there at home with your kid or your wife saying, 'Let's go on a holiday to Brazil,' and the next thing, it's suggesting Brazilian midget transsexuals from your previous Google search history."
Yep. All the time. Who doesn't go scouring the web for Brazilian midget transsexuals just weeks before they take a family trip to Brazil for the holiday? Surely every straight man that has ever lived who respects his wife, his family, and his own masculinity has done it...
Re:Grow the hell up. by VlartBlart · 2012-09-26 19:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

I believe it is intentional.
From Wikipedia
Pr0n is slang for pornography.[1] This is a deliberately inaccurate spelling/pronunciation for porn,[14] where a zero is often used to replace the letter O. It is sometimes used in legitimate communications (such as email discussion groups, Usenet, chat rooms, and internet web pages) to circumvent language and content filters, which may reject messages as offensive or spam. The word also helps prevent search engines from associating commercial sites with pornography, which might result in unwelcome traffic.
Re:Could even replace Google... by viperidaenz · 2012-09-26 21:29 · Score: 2

Straight from the 90's.... thehun.com
A name for this venture by naich · 2012-09-26 21:30 · Score: 3, Funny

Booble.
Re:Could even replace Google... by Joce640k · 2012-09-26 22:02 · Score: 2

That's weird, iddn't it? It was a lot easier to find porn before Google came along.
Does Google have an "unsafe search" option?
Because it should.

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Re:Could even replace Google... by Greyfox · 2012-09-27 00:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah. Turn off safe search and type in "Clown Porn". Go ahead, I'll wait.
Ooh! "Dolphin Sex" is another good one!
It only took me one search to realize that you need to include "Document Preparation System" in any search involving "LaTeX"!
It seems that the "Leather Hat" search doesn't have the topless male model in a leather hat in the first few hits anymore. If you click over to images and scroll down, you'll find him though!
Ok, now that we're warmed up... Click over to images and enter "Penis Torture Device"! Oh yeah! Although you still get better results on Amazon for that search than you do on Google Shopping...
What? Someone has to come up with these! Don't judge me!
Heh heh heh

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.xxx spam? by P-niiice · 2012-09-27 07:05 · Score: 2

What would be cool is if you join forums and use your email address in the .xxx namespace and you end up getting spammed but for stuff you actually need.