According to Google, Porn is Family Friendly
Posted at 2:36pm EST on 11/06/2007
As I was doing research for my next post, I was scanning some Google images for something creative and fund to post as the primary image. Shocked, I came across a clearly explicit image.
I checked SafeSearch to ensure it was on, and certainly it was. Here is what I saw,
I felt it was very odd for an adult image to be coming up for my search query. “Bring out your dead” was my search query, searching for large images only. Indeed it only returned less than 20,000 results, that’s still no excuse for the explicit image.
I entirely understand that Google has no way of filtering every single image by hand, but their antilogarithms need to be better than this. The filters need some serious tuning for this not to happen again.
James Logsdon
Nov 6th, 2007
I understand where you’re coming from, but I think you’re expecting too much from the algorithm they use. It’s impossible for it too know every single porn image, no matter how good it is. Some will slip through. The fact that that image was hosted on flickr and not a porn site makes it even less likely for it to be filtered automatically.
Jonathan Dingman
Nov 6th, 2007
Yeah and maybe I am expecting too much. But I feel it’s better to expect too much than not enough. This expectation helps set the standard for what they should accomplish.