History of Google Filters ::
In 2003 April, Google tested its SafeSearch porn filter but the results were not as accurate as expected.
How did it worked?Google did exclude the porn / objectable sites via link analysis and will not display the content and the even the site, no matter you did visit the site or not.
In October 2005, Google did test the “similar page filter” or “duplicate content filter” whatever you find suitable, the major change it has created was if a page trigger a duplicate content filter during the SERP ( Search Engine Result Page) ranking, some observed all the pages of the particular site, go in duplicate data /index.
The latest in the Filter tool saga is Google’s Orkut Content Filter, here the funda is to automatically screen and mark unsafe, mature content which may not be safe for the users, preventing Orkut from a potentially unsafe future.
How does it work?
Well you have to do nothing to start the filter, it will be ON by default if you are visiting from India.
All the objectionable material including pics, data, text etc will be marked as unsafe and will be placed along with a warning signal.
Google owned Youtube is showing a welcome message today mentioning a new filter well this is a ” Suggested Country Filter”.
How did it worked?Google did exclude the porn / objectable sites via link analysis and will not display the content and the even the site, no matter you did visit the site or not.
In October 2005, Google did test the “similar page filter” or “duplicate content filter” whatever you find suitable, the major change it has created was if a page trigger a duplicate content filter during the SERP ( Search Engine Result Page) ranking, some observed all the pages of the particular site, go in duplicate data /index.
The latest in the Filter tool saga is Google’s Orkut Content Filter, here the funda is to automatically screen and mark unsafe, mature content which may not be safe for the users, preventing Orkut from a potentially unsafe future.
How does it work?
Well you have to do nothing to start the filter, it will be ON by default if you are visiting from India.
All the objectionable material including pics, data, text etc will be marked as unsafe and will be placed along with a warning signal.
Google owned Youtube is showing a welcome message today mentioning a new filter well this is a ” Suggested Country Filter”.
Now this filter is all about setting your country (gathered as per your IP, to my understanding) and expected to help in finding more of the country-specific videos, it can still be changed to Worldwide.
Is this a breach of privacy ? lets keep it to the users to decide…
