Despite many months of flailing away at search engines for data to support their claims that casual searches would lead unsuspecting people (especially kids) to adult sites, a study found only about one percent of indexed sites at Google and Microsoft contain explicit content. "It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." -- Q chats with Picard about the Borg, Q Who?
suing Google in January 2006. Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo, along with a number of other parties subpoenaed for volumes of search data, readily handed over the requested information. Google managed to report noted that out of a government-commissioned study of search indexes, only a small percent of the URLs in them lead to explicit content. UC-Berkeley statistics professor Philip B. Stark Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.No Sex Please, We're Online
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