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Could it be due to some overly zealous prude filter and the unfortunate coincidence that "beej" is American slang for blowjob (oral sex)?

by et-al 4y ago

michaelmrose 4y ago
Actually outright porn is indexed you know or so I hear.
- irrational 4y ago
  Porn is one thing, the word Beej is quite another. I wish this was a joke.
- SonOfLilit 4y ago
  Indexed, but only returned if the search query was explicitly and unambiguously about porn.
  - frickinLasers 4y ago
    Not true, I've had pages of x-rated results with SafeSearch on, with DDG and Bing, a couple of times. The search only needs to be sufficiently weird. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670
    - SonOfLilit 4y ago
      Where "weird" involves words like "licking" and "party" (not saying it's not a bug, just that it's a statistics vs actual language understanding bug in a feature and not absence of that feature). I bet there's no way to compose all of the words "spatula", "serotonin", "pion" and "deconstruction" along with words like is/a/an/of/how/what/when that would turn safe search off, despite any query of this format would pretty weird.
Johnny555 4y ago
That's pretty obscure slang, I'm American and have never heard it.
- alar44 4y ago
  It's very common.
  - Johnny555 4y ago
    Is it very common? If I search "Beej" on Google without Safesearch enabled, I get 14.3M results, if I turn on the Safesearch filter, it still returns 14.3M results. If I repeat the same experiment with "blowjob", it's 1.5B results vs 23M. If I search for "Beej" on Bing with SafeSearch Off, I get 2,840,000 results, while with Safesearch on Strict, I get 2,800,000 results. I couldn't search for "blowjob" at all with Safesearch on Strict.
    - alar44 4y ago
      It's generally spoken, not typed out.
- beej71 4y ago
  I used to say, "'Beej', like 'B.J. Hunnicutt' from MASH." But MASH is getting a little too far removed these days. :)
- TeMPOraL 4y ago
  Took me a while to figure it out, but yeah - seems "Beej" is pronounced as "(Bee)(j)", which matches the pronunciation of "BJ". But I don't think it's relevant to site indexing, unless search engines started to take homophones into account. EDIT: but maybe they did, ever since voice assistants became a thing?
beej71 4y ago
I've definitely considered that. (I'm well-aware of my nickname's connotations, and I just don't care. :) ) But they index everything else on my site and don't prude out over that...

Could it be due to some overly zealous prude filter and the unfortunate coincidence that "beej" is American slang for blowjob (oral sex)?

by et-al 4y ago

Could it be due to some overly zealous prude filter and the unfortunate coincidence that "beej" is American slang for blowjob (oral sex)?

michaelmrose 4y ago

Actually outright porn is indexed you know or so I hear.

irrational 4y ago
Porn is one thing, the word Beej is quite another. I wish this was a joke.
SonOfLilit 4y ago
Indexed, but only returned if the search query was explicitly and unambiguously about porn.
- frickinLasers 4y ago
  Not true, I've had pages of x-rated results with SafeSearch on, with DDG and Bing, a couple of times. The search only needs to be sufficiently weird. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670
  - SonOfLilit 4y ago
    Where "weird" involves words like "licking" and "party" (not saying it's not a bug, just that it's a statistics vs actual language understanding bug in a feature and not absence of that feature). I bet there's no way to compose all of the words "spatula", "serotonin", "pion" and "deconstruction" along with words like is/a/an/of/how/what/when that would turn safe search off, despite any query of this format would pretty weird.

Johnny555 4y ago

That's pretty obscure slang, I'm American and have never heard it.

alar44 4y ago
It's very common.
- Johnny555 4y ago
  Is it very common? If I search "Beej" on Google without Safesearch enabled, I get 14.3M results, if I turn on the Safesearch filter, it still returns 14.3M results. If I repeat the same experiment with "blowjob", it's 1.5B results vs 23M. If I search for "Beej" on Bing with SafeSearch Off, I get 2,840,000 results, while with Safesearch on Strict, I get 2,800,000 results. I couldn't search for "blowjob" at all with Safesearch on Strict.
  - alar44 4y ago
    It's generally spoken, not typed out.
beej71 4y ago
I used to say, "'Beej', like 'B.J. Hunnicutt' from MASH." But MASH is getting a little too far removed these days. :)
TeMPOraL 4y ago
Took me a while to figure it out, but yeah - seems "Beej" is pronounced as "(Bee)(j)", which matches the pronunciation of "BJ". But I don't think it's relevant to site indexing, unless search engines started to take homophones into account. EDIT: but maybe they did, ever since voice assistants became a thing?

beej71 4y ago

I've definitely considered that. (I'm well-aware of my nickname's connotations, and I just don't care. :) ) But they index everything else on my site and don't prude out over that...