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One can already search for porn explicitly in google. I don't see how it's that big a deal that some meaningless queries return noise, it's not like anyone is l
by lucian1900 14y ago
One can already search for porn explicitly in google. I don't see how it's that big a deal that some meaningless queries return noise, it's not like anyone is likely to be making those queries on purpose.
- DanBC 14y agoIt's interesting that some results return noise, but others don't. [-3 "3 4"] returns porn links. [-3 "2 3 4"] returns nothing. [-fish "fish and chips"] returns nothing. Curiosity, especially about the small things that break, is a strong feature of hacker mentality.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoQuite frankly, the other day I attempted to track down a humorous but "pornographic" image that I had seen many moons ago. It was all but impossible on Image search even though I'd found it before the recent SafeSearch changes. I don't really understand the rationale for the change... was there just too much stuff leaking through SafeSearch or what?
- lambda 14y agoI don't think it's interesting in a "hey look, you can find porn on Google." It's interesting in that it's a bug that produces results for imposible queries, but for some reason seems to mostly turn up porn results. Is that just a statistical sampling; so much of Google's index is porn, that a random bug which picks up impossible results, that thus don't go through its safe search feature, is predominantly porn? Or is the bug somehow linked to the safe search feature, accidentally turning the blacklist into a whitelist?