Google Base Hit by Porn.
Cnet reports that Google has fixed a porn filter problem: "A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week."
Google's take on it is..
Quote:
"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.
And this is how it was percieved by a punter...
Quote:
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."
- Y! MyWeb
*rofl*
...and how many days did it take to stuff the base with pr0n? *LOL* Something you just gotta remember if you have a high reach product: They´re always trying out new things in that industry... Good one, cornwall :-)
expected
Come on y'all this was expected from day one, next in line is Spam. They got a lot of work over to keep this straight.
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lesson #1 - call your daughters Mildred or a simlarily non porn name
lesson #2 - *sigh* its a Google launch. You expect it to work or something?
lol
LOL
perfect score?
so are they batting 1.000 on including "technical glitches" in their product launchs.
methinks, yes ...
whatever happened to:
we are a search company and we will stick to our core competencies
I'm confused . . .
I thought the whole reason for Google base was p0rn.
base adj Having or proceeding from low moral standards. ignoble, low, low-down, mean, porn, sordid, squalid, vile.
Wasn't that the whole point of Google Base?