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FC: Baby site mislabeled as porn shows hazards of Web robots
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:30:49 -0400
[Suggested solution: Bill puts up ads on Fiona's JPEG pages and cashes in on the horny pornhounds' misdirected hits. --Declan] http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/0831tech1xfiles.htm Baby site mislabeled as porn shows hazards of Web robots 08/31/99 By Pete Slover / The Dallas Morning News Dallas photographer Bill Maselunas was curious when he started noticing hits on his family Web site from the search index at search.thunderstone.com. Curious turned to furious when he went to the Thunderstone site and learned that his Web page - including snapshots of his 9-month-old daughter, Fiona - had been classified as triple-X porn by Thunderstone's automated indexing software. It apparently interpreted references to the infant cooing and giggling as smut. [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo () vorlon mit edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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