Google Base Says Goodbye to Porn

November 28, 2005 by Gilad  
Filed under Computers

Last week it was reported that the new Google Base service is having serious problems with filtering porn results and therefore, turning the experience very un-SafeSearch.
This problem was fixed over the holiday and CNet reports that

“Yesterday evening, we became aware of a problem with the Google Base SafeSearch feature and we acted quickly to resolve the issue,” Google spokesman Nate Tyler said via an e-mail on Wednesday. He said the filter feature was broken for “some period of time,” but declined to further specify.

I can’t imagine the reaction of someone whose been hit by all those results,

Todd Ripley, a real estate investor in Asheville, N.C., noticed the problem on Tuesday morning after he uploaded photos of his 2-year-old daughter Jasmine onto his Google Base page. He planned to direct his family to the page but decided against it after a search for “Jasmine” turned up some unsavory results despite the use of the SafeSearch filter.

“I was just shocked,” Ripley said. “I was inundated with page after page after page of basically porn sites.”

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