Sunday, January 6, 2013

Google vs Porn

Has Google decided it knows what's best for us?  Does the world's largest search engine think that even when we tell it we are okay with explicit or adult related search results that we really didn't want to see that, or are they, like so many, bending to the idea that they don't want "the children" to look up porn on computers (neverminding that you can still set your Google settings to filter explicit content and lock those settings in place, thus keeping children from viewing them)

It seems that this has been the case.  Occasionally I'll be in the position of needing to look up photos of colleges in the industry when talking about them with friends to either show them who they are or remind them, or in some cases I find myself looking up photos of other men in the industry when looking for photos to show people what I'm trying to obtain with my body.  Over the last few months, however, I'm finding it has become harder and harder to get the results from my image search that I'm looking for, and it wasn't until this morning when a friend of mine did a Yahoo image search that I found the results there to be much more appropriate to the search we were doing.

Take for example Adam Killian. Google gives us results like this:

As you can see, not all the images in the top results are even him, and most of the photos showing aren't that pornographic, just a few showing his butt crack.

Now on a Yahoo search, I get this:



This time the results are much more accurate. All photos of him, some very pornographic.

It becomes even more obvious the less super star status the person has gotten close to obtaining. Take for example a still well known porn actor, Leo Forte on google:



and on Yahoo:



As you can again see here we've been censored out.  I have made certain that my options do not tell Google to filter explicit results, and so this does not seem to be a case of settings, but more a reason for me to change search engines to one that doesn't feel the need to tell us that the internet isn't really for porn.


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