[LINK] ALA Site blocked by Google's Filter

[Ian Macintosh]

http://news.com.com/2100-1032-996417.html
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Google argues that SafeSearch is designed to err on the side of caution. 
David Drummond <http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#david>, 
Google's vice president for business development, said: "The design was 
meant to be overinclusive. The thinking was that SafeSearch was an 
opt-in feature. 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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Google think that having the default setting for SafeSearch set to 
moderate is "opt-in".  Like a lot of these filtering systems you have to 
opt-OUT.

I for one have not been impressed with their filtering and will remain 
OUT of the system.  

Ian Macintosh

Ivan Trundle wrote:

>Forwarded from Karen Schneider, kgs at lii.org...
>
>It's worth reminding ourselves that as information specialists, we
>have
>been right on this issue all along.
>
>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/google-safesearch/
>
>"Testing indicates that SafeSearch blocks at least tens of thousands
>of
>web pages without any sexually-explicit content, whether graphical or
>textual. Blocked results include sites operated by educational
>institutions, non-profits, news media, and national and local
>governments."
>
>Harvard analysts observed, "In making SafeSearch available to the
>public, with the knowledge that many thousands of Internet users will
>rely on it day in and day out, Google puts its name and reputation
>behind this specific implementation of content filtering."
>
>Also see discussion in Searchday:
>
>http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2191611
>
>"Google's SafeSearch porn filter was found to exclude non-porn sites
>such as the American Library Association, in a recent test conducted
>by
>the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society."
>
>
>--
>Ivan Trundle
>
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