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Re: [ga] Google's SafeSearch is overzealous, blocks innocuous domains

Nainil and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

 It is a shame that such poor judgment by the folks on Googles management
and development team has now in the interest if protecting prying eyes
or innocent eyes from viewing what they have decided is "innocuous domains"
that may be used for sexually explicit information.  Yet none of this
so called "SafeSearch" is necessary in order to still provide for strings
contained in a Domain Name that may contain "girls" or "Sex", ect., ect...
A simple programing change can fix this foolishness and still provide for
protected searches of innocent eyes...  It may be that again the FTC or
DOC/NTIA needs to step in here and make a regulation that would
prohibit search engine providers from inadvertently damaging others
that may have as part of their Domain Names, strings of characters, that
may be otherwise filtered out when doing "Safe Searches" of terms
that may have/ sexually explicit terms or words...  But my guess is
that neither government agency will take the lead here and step up
to the plate any time soon.

nainil@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to mention that I fould the following article on
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4816549/
>
> It addresses the same issue.
>
> Google's SafeSearch flaws are more than academic -- they can have serious 
> consequences for innocent Web site operators blocked out by them. Google is 
> the most widely used search engine on the Web, and failure to appear in its 
> listings can have a direct impact on sales for some companies, particularly 
> smaller enterprises with limited marketing budgets.
>
> Research company WebSideStory reported last month that Google claimed an 
> all-time high in search referrals, 41 percent of the United States total, and 
> the search giant's market share is steadily expanding.
>
> "Traffic from Google can make or break a business," said Maria Medina, whose 
> family-run clothing business at ALittleGirlsBoutique.com doesn't pass the 
> SafeSearch censor. "Here I am, a mom of four children, creating an at-home 
> business that sells little girl dresses and accessories, in order to spend 
> more time with my children, and I have been filtered out as not being family 
> friendly. Ridiculous."
>
> David Drummond, Google's vice president for business development, said that 
> at the time of its development, SafeSearch was designed to be overly 
> cautious. "The thinking was that SafeSearch was an opt-in feature," Drummond 
> said. "People who turn it on care a lot more about something sneaking through 
> than they do about something getting filtered out."
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff Williams
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:00 PM
> To: General Assembly of the DNSO
> Subject: [ga] Google's SafeSearch is overzealous, blocks innocuous domains
>
> All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,
>
>   Seems Google has gone over the edge.  More disgusting Censorship... Maybe 
> there is to much sex in Vietnam and to many girls advertising
> their wares...    So much for Marketing is education and/or
> education is marketing...  No more liberal sex education for Safe Searchers 
> on Google, and seems all "Girls" are now "innocuous" if the term or string 
> "Girls" appears in a domain name and google is your chosen "Safe Search" 
> search facility.. So Girlscouts.org, Girlsclub.org, ect, ect., are now 
> "innocuous" domains...  How special... :/
>
> Regards,
>
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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"Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
    Pierre Abelard

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
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