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Sure thing. Get DDG to stop injecting reams of extremely unrelated porn into my image search results (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516941 https://news

by ebg13 7y ago

Sure thing. Get DDG to stop injecting reams of extremely unrelated porn into my image search results (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516941) and I'll consider it.

leipert 7y ago
Does this also happen with safe search on?
eesmith 7y ago
FWIW, I use DDG and an image search of "filled torus" with "Safe Search: Moderate" doesn't return any porn in an attempt just now. It does seem to treat "torus" and all uses of "tori" as synonyms, giving lots of images of people named Tori, or taken/written by people by that name, rather than more-than-one-torus. Google Image Search doesn't make that association between the singular and plural. You'll need to search for "filled tori" to see plenty of people named Tori.
- saalweachter 7y ago
  Ooooooh, that's what's happening on that search! I had assumed it was some combination of a bad synonym, partial matching, and a sort order that depended too heavily on site popularity and too little on query relevance, but the torus -> tori rewrite never even occurred to me.
  - logfromblammo 7y ago
    Topologically, humans are usually toruses, ignoring that the digestive tract splits into mouth and two nostrils at the caudal end. It actually occurred to me that the search might be that smarty-stupid before being exposed to the idea that the plural of torus is actually the same as the proper first name of a lot of immodest image models. That made me feel a bit smarty-stupid myself.
    - saalweachter 7y ago
      I'd assumed a much more vulgar synonym, myself.
rocky1138 7y ago
I don't get any porn results in image searched on DDG for "filled torus" when set to Moderate or Strict. I think it's fair to expect it to be on the user when searching for something online to be okay with perhaps seeing pornographic or unwanted search results when set to no filtering.
- ebg13 7y ago
  It's fair to expect RELEVANT pornographic results, not irrelevant ones. DDG(Bing) is too naive to identify that the plural of torus should not be connected to porn star Tori Black with high priority.
detaro 7y ago
Also happens with the normal search results (both straight up porn and an odd priority for sex-related results), very peculiar. Example for the latter: searched for "quadriplegic" recently (came up in the home assistant discussion on HN and I wanted to check if I remembered correctly what it means, not being a native English speaker). Comparing the top 10 results: Both Google and DDG bring up dictionaries. Both suggest videos about life as a quadriplegic. Google finds the wikipedia article, DDG doesn't. DDG has in spot 3, 8, 9 and 10 articles/videos about how quadriplegics have sex. (Google also isn't perfect: way to many dictionary results IMHO, although it is set to search both German and English)

by ebg13 7y ago

leipert 7y ago

Does this also happen with safe search on?

eesmith 7y ago

FWIW, I use DDG and an image search of "filled torus" with "Safe Search: Moderate" doesn't return any porn in an attempt just now. It does seem to treat "torus" and all uses of "tori" as synonyms, giving lots of images of people named Tori, or taken/written by people by that name, rather than more-than-one-torus. Google Image Search doesn't make that association between the singular and plural. You'll need to search for "filled tori" to see plenty of people named Tori.

saalweachter 7y ago
Ooooooh, that's what's happening on that search! I had assumed it was some combination of a bad synonym, partial matching, and a sort order that depended too heavily on site popularity and too little on query relevance, but the torus -> tori rewrite never even occurred to me.
- logfromblammo 7y ago
  Topologically, humans are usually toruses, ignoring that the digestive tract splits into mouth and two nostrils at the caudal end. It actually occurred to me that the search might be that smarty-stupid before being exposed to the idea that the plural of torus is actually the same as the proper first name of a lot of immodest image models. That made me feel a bit smarty-stupid myself.
  - saalweachter 7y ago
    I'd assumed a much more vulgar synonym, myself.

rocky1138 7y ago

I don't get any porn results in image searched on DDG for "filled torus" when set to Moderate or Strict. I think it's fair to expect it to be on the user when searching for something online to be okay with perhaps seeing pornographic or unwanted search results when set to no filtering.

ebg13 7y ago
It's fair to expect RELEVANT pornographic results, not irrelevant ones. DDG(Bing) is too naive to identify that the plural of torus should not be connected to porn star Tori Black with high priority.

detaro 7y ago

Also happens with the normal search results (both straight up porn and an odd priority for sex-related results), very peculiar. Example for the latter: searched for "quadriplegic" recently (came up in the home assistant discussion on HN and I wanted to check if I remembered correctly what it means, not being a native English speaker). Comparing the top 10 results: Both Google and DDG bring up dictionaries. Both suggest videos about life as a quadriplegic. Google finds the wikipedia article, DDG doesn't. DDG has in spot 3, 8, 9 and 10 articles/videos about how quadriplegics have sex. (Google also isn't perfect: way to many dictionary results IMHO, although it is set to search both German and English)