[Lias] Re: [acscomputers] Google rewrites?

Paul Gear pgear at redlands.qld.edu.au
Wed Aug 24 13:46:02 UTC 2005


John Summerfield wrote:
> ...
> harrumph!
>
> We'd rather our students couldn't get these results:
> http://images.google.com/images?safe=strict&q="big buds"
>
> "grow your own drugs" isn't on the curriculum.

:-)

They seem to have cleaned it up quite a bit since the last time i had to
do a major student investigation, but back then (last November), you'd
get half a page of nudes when you typed almost any female first name
into Google images.  Now, even with safe search off, it looks a lot
better.  Maybe i could think about opening up access again (at the
moment, we block Google & Yahoo image searches because of that problem.

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