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[FlipConstantine]

But I read somewhere (I think it might have been Time magazine) that Google tried some kind of update, which was causing old information to come to tops of searches.  I feel like I have noticed the direct result of this problem.

You are correct about this I believe.  There was a rash of "OMG GOOGLE IS FULL" stories a couple weeks ago, which apparently were misinterpretations of the real news, which was that they were becoming clogged with a lot of spam due to a Googlebot update, though I haven't noticed it personally.

[pmcd9]

Yeah I can't find shit on Goggle anymore.  I thought it was just me.

~Paul

[Doc]

Any thoughts from people who use google scholar? I tend to use it as a secondary reference and use more reputable journal databases for my main literature searches but it does throw up some good stuff now and then. Not sure how reliable their citation index is but thats a bit iffy no matter where you look.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Hmmm.  I still find damn well near anything I want with Google.  Go figure.

[AlohaDawg]

Yeah I can't find shit on Goggle anymore.  I thought it was just me.

~Paul

There's all kinds of shit on google.

[Lister]

This is exactly what happened with every other search engine ever, which is basically that they made an algorithm that found good info, then the people who want you to click on their porn ads figured out the algorithm.

The problem is not really with Google, though they could probably filter out most of these fake results with a little "Don't return results with 'fuck' on the same page" checkbox or something.  The problem is that there are apparently very ingenious people who want you to click on their porn ads, and they have more time/energy than Google does.

Maybe I'll just automatically put "-sluts" in every search and see how that works.

[AlohaDawg]

I don't understand why all commercial sex sites can't just have the suffix .xxx or something like that. Then people who want porn can find it real easily and those who don't can just ban all .xxx sites. Wouldn't that solve the problem?

[wombat]

Hmm, I never get porn when I use Google.  I wonder what I am doing wrong right.

[littlefallsmets]

I don't understand why all commercial sex sites can't just have the suffix .xxx or something like that. Then people who want porn can find it real easily and those who don't can just ban all .xxx sites. Wouldn't that solve the problem?

The porn industry doesn't want their market limited so easily like that, so they're ag'in it.

And... oddly enough... religious right-wing folks don't want it either, because they think giving it its own domain legitimizes it.

So when something about restricting porn is opposed by both pornographers AND moralists?

It don't happen.

[CortJstr]

The porn industry doesn't want their market limited so easily like that, so they're ag'in it.

And... oddly enough... religious right-wing folks don't want it either, because they think giving it its own domain legitimizes it.

So when something about restricting porn is opposed by both pornographers AND moralists?

It don't happen.

There's also the fact that you can't force all the porn sites that already exists to give up their .com or .net sites just by creating .xxx. You could try, but ICANN is powerless (according to their rules there shouldn't be an aol.com or comcast.com at all) and lots of the sites either are hosted in other countries or would move.

.kids is much more likely. I believe that already has the backing of some major players in the porn world.

[Lister]

There's also the issue of whether .xxx sites could *advertise* on .coms or whatever, as well as an accurate and unambiguous definition of pornography.

I do kind of hate the fact that it wouldn't work, because I really do want a way to protect the childrens without curtailing my rights.  I don't like it when my niece mistypes "americangirl.com" and gets sent to a spyware/adware/porn advertising page.

Come to think of it, though, I don't like it when I mistype something and end up there either.

[Mite]

As a person who regularly has to order weird shit off the internet for work, I acutally find their ads (and Froogle) very usefull when I need them. And, as others mentioned, they're easily ignorable otherwise.

[theinevitable]

oh lord, for a second I thought you meant you often had to buy porn/sex toys online for work.

best/worst job ever!

[Mite]

Where did I say I didn't *creepy smile*?

[misterqueue]

Where did I say I didn't *creepy smile*?

You know.. if that's the case I just might have to build a shrine to you... made out of sex toys... and ketchup packets.

Don't ask why the ketchup packets.