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Internet Only 1% Porn 422

Eli Gottlieb writes "In what surely comes as a complete and utter surprise to everyone here, a new calculation shows that only one percent of web pages contain pornography. While the calculations were performed using data forced from Google's and Microsoft's search indices by the government, they will help the American Civil Liberties Union to keep enforcement of the Children's Online Protection Act of 1998 banned. A loss for business privacy has become a victory for free speech, even though netizens lose a beloved old proverb."
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  • Re:The other 99% (Score:2, Informative)

    by EinZweiDrei ( 955497 ) * <einzweidrei@wildmail.com> on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @10:37AM (#16851746)
    Tubes.
  • by owlnation ( 858981 ) on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @10:55AM (#16852022)
    Of course the whole 99% isn't useless. However a significant percentage does indeed seem to be.

    For example if I use English words to search for something in Google.de....

    (At this point I would like to point out to any web designers who code to redirect users to country specific sites and languages based on their IP address, that if I ever find you I will hurt you, that's a promise. I live in Germany and travel a lot in the EU, but I speak English, I'm damned if I can ever get the page I'm looking for after a cookie clear. Seriously, do you think I'm too stupid to know the difference between .com and .de; that's why I typed one not the other, why on earth should you redirect me?)

    ...anyway, using almost any English words in Google.de pulls up almost nothing but link farms, SEO pages and click fraud sites, etc. It makes me seriously wonder about the true value of my Adwords account - I really don't think enough is being done about this issue. (And to anyone from Google who's reading, please encourage your German colleagues to do some work, SEO is rampant here.)

    Or perhaps we're just long overdue for the next generation of search engine. Google is better than that which came before it, but it still has a long way to go. I want to find my porn without click fraud crap.
  • by lmfr ( 567586 ) on Wednesday November 15, 2006 @01:37PM (#16854848) Journal
    It's pointed at the end of every country specific google page:

    http://www.google.com/ncr [google.com]

For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!

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