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Google classifies sex abuse as Entertainment

Ah, the perils of relying on automated classification!

Mind you, I think Google News is quite impressive and useful overall; I'm just pointing out the blip above as example of how automated technologies can cause situations that are either particularly incongruous or even uncomfortable.

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 18:58 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Geekery • Wackiness • Google
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from
James
Business for sale

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This not to be done by G.
Now Google needs to specify different category for booth these.

- Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 22:47 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Comment from
Jose
Learn to Read

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Hum, James is right,
As Google becoming a very family friendly search engine and website.
Google news is one of the major part of Google Inc. So Google need to define different categories for both.

- Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 2:11 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Comment from
SEO Florida
St. Petersburg FL US

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Here Google Missed out something for classification of various categories.

- Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 at 23:22 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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