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I refuse to believe there's that many people doing searches in this "real time" search list and there's nothing pornographic...
by balabaster 13y ago
I refuse to believe there's that many people doing searches in this "real time" search list and there's nothing pornographic...
- dlhavema 13y agothey could easily have a filter setup to make it more "public-friendly"
- ChuckMcM 13y agoWhen I worked at Google there were projectors in the lobby which projected a sampling of queries coming through in "real time." And like you I noticed that there weren't any queries for things I knew people were querying for, so like any curious Googler I went out and found the source code for the program that did that, and yes, as you would expect, it filters out the naughty bits. (and various other searches that are attempted and of dubious moral value). At Blekko (where I currently work) I wrote a similar application so that we could watch searches, live, on our display monitors. It has been invaluable in identifying robotic searches and amusing to watch how some folks mangle the english language in their quest for porn, but most interestingly for me is that it is a great way to train your urban dictionary app since the OED doesn't define 'underass' but if you look at the pages that contain the term you can compute what folks take it to mean ;-), and then you can add it to the filter list.