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    • Google SafeSearch Results for ‘Sex Video’ Block Wikipedia

    By Loren Baker, Editor | January 15, 2007

    Was going through my referring keywords today and noticed a rather odd term sending in Google traffic; “sex video.”

    Knowing that I’ve posted stories about YouTube in the past and some of the steamier search engines out there, I checked the Google results for this term.

    Clicking over from my analytics program, I was taken to this URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=sex+video&safe=active

    I then noticed that this site is ranked #5 on Google for “Sex Video” but a difference in the URL than my normal Google results: &safe=active

    Seems that with SafeSearch activated, we rank #5 for Sex Video but when I tried the URL without the safe variable, we were ranked #12 behind a bunch of porn spam and other crap.

    I’m guessing that there are now a bunch of middle school kids finding this site in Google now, so I better be extra careful in terms of what we link to.

    I’m also thinking that it would not be a good thing to be blocked by Google when the end user is using SafeSearch (if you’re not a dirty site). Comparing the results, the only non-porn sites blocked were Quizilla & Wikipedia.

    Yes, Google is blocking some Wikipedia pages in SafeSearch.

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