August 13th, 2006
XXX Porn at Google.com powers AdWords business
In “Google Porn?” Michael Arrington parses the significance of changes in Google Video taxonomy regarding “Mature and Adult” content:
People watching Google Video closely noticed a change this week in the upload area - the restrictions on uploading “pornographic or obscene” material is now just a restriction on “obscene” material. They’ve also added a “mature and adult” category to the genres and removed (I believe) a box on the initial uploading page that must be checked where the uploader certifies that the “video is not pornographic or obscene material.
Parsing of Google’s interest in capitalizing off of the lucrative pornography business is not necessary, however, at Google‘s core search product and money making machine: Google.com.
A search on “porn” at Google.com yields 139,000,000 search results, a “porn” definition link and ten AdWords “Sponsored Links” on the first SERP, which hawk hardcore sex products and services.
Number one Google algorithmic search result:
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Google AdWords “Sponsored Links”:
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Definition of “porn”: “creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire.”
The easy access to XXX porn via Google.com is consistent with the Google is a “simple aggregator of information” stance put forth by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Search Engine Strategies Conference last Wednesday.
Schmidt indicated that it is up to publishers to “be responsible.” Schmidt also put forth that information of a dubious nature will “rank poorly.“
While Schmidt assured that Google “worries a lot about this,” Schmidt concluded that the overwhelming access to information that Google enables “justifies what we do.”
