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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. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    what... too busy searching to post?

    1. Re:first post by MobileTatsu-NJG · · 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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  2. Obligatory Simpsons by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. Oh, thank goodness! by Shoten · · 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 · · 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 louic · · 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.

    3. Re:Oh, thank goodness! by Brucelet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Slow down, some people are into that!

  4. Never such thing as too much porn by Deathnerd · · 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 · · 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 · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Six monitors? You are into fat chicks, aren't you?

  5. Brazillian midget transsexuals by afgam28 · · 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 :)

  6. But... by bmo · · 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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  7. 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.

  8. Poor Google by Memophage · · 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.

  9. 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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    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.

    2. Re:Unsafe Search, NOW! by Nigel+Stepp · · Score: 5, Informative

      That was monzy.

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  10. Re:Grow the hell up. by VlartBlart · · 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.