Earlier this week, a technical glitch let pornographic results seep into Google Base, Google's free index of classified listings and other user-generated content. The post-anything database allows
adult content but lets users filter these results through its SafeSearch feature, which wasn't working Tuesday, according to a Google spokesperson. With the filter turned off, seemingly innocuous
search terms like people's names would return sexual material. Cnet said it searched terms like "XXX" and received more than 14,000 results--a staggeringly high number for a database that's only a
week old. One blogger, impressed by the amount of adult content, said Google Base "could become a huge source for porn." Google said adult content only makes up a small part of the information on
Google Base.
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