Google's chastity belt too tight By Declan McCullagh CNET News.com (April 23) -- Google's SafeSearch for blocking "adult" content is over zealous in picking out words and will block a site for just having s-e-x in the word (like Sussex) or in referring to girls, however innocently.
"CNET News.com evaluated SafeSearch by testing tens of thousands of random Web pages and identifying which ones were incorrectly listed as pornographic. The results showed that Google encountered many of the same problems that have plagued Internet filters for almost a decade."
Article notes that Yahoo's filters aren't as "hypersensitive".
Posted by Gwen at April 27, 2004 01:03 PM