It has been a busy quarter around here. Overwhelmed with projects, especially the pet kind. One pet project we’ve been working on for over a year is convincing Wikipedia to stop being a porn site (from within the editor community). While we cannot take credit for the changes that seem to have finally gone live today at Google, we are glad they happened.
So here’s the gist of the change. On 12/12/2012 Google rolled out a modification to its “strict” search function that makes it always either on or off. Even with the filter turned off, Google has removed most of the pornography that it has hosted for years. Sadly, Bing’s control is identical to Google’s old one. So next up, Bing and Yahoo, should stop hosting pornography.
We’ll see if this change holds, but if it does 3 cheers for Google! Now let’s see if Wikipedia finally follows suit, as it promised us so many years ago.
These seem great.