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Porn sneaks past search filters

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Porn sneaks past search filters

By Paul Festa

Staff Writer, CNET News.com

July 2, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT

Search companies are increasingly turning to censorware to court G- rated customers such as corporations, schools and parents, but they're still showing too much skin.

The shortcomings of porn filters were on display last week when Google launched a test version of a search engine for images with an optional filter for what it terms "inappropriate adult content." Even with the filter turned on, Google is serving a healthy dose of pornographic images, often for keywords with primarily nonsexual meanings.

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