Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'porn'

A Google Web Search Help thread reports that Google has been the target of spammers who are trying to push their pornographic videos into Google. This is nothing new, but the terms these spammers are using now include Holocaust related...

Posted on September 30, 2009 9:11 AM

Yesterday, I spotted a post in the Google Web Search Help threads from an individual who claims to be representing Rambha, a famous Indian actress. This person is looking for Google to remove a video from the Google search results...

Posted on August 20, 2009 8:16 AM

About a month ago, we reported that Google slapped the porn industry with a Google penalty of some sort. Soon after we reported the issue, Google seemed to have reversed the penalty on that industry. But we all thought it...

Posted on July 23, 2009 8:53 AM

When Bing first launched, it received a lot of hype around the amount of porn it found. Soon after, Microsoft added additional measures to help filter out the porn and adult content. Now, it seems like Google has changes Google...

Posted on July 6, 2009 8:44 AM

On Monday we reported that Google spanked the adult porn industry by penalizing many of the sites. There were many theories as to why those sites were penalized. It wasn't all the adult sites that were penalized but a nice...

Posted on July 1, 2009 8:26 AM

I rarely cover how Google is treating the adult online industry. But I have noticed a thread at Google Webmaster Help forums that is pretty heated on the topic of Google penalizing hundreds of adult and pornographic web sites over...

Posted on June 29, 2009 8:57 AM

An interesting thread at Google Web Search Help started by "anotherDad" tells the story of how a father was shocked to see a pornographic site come up in the Google search results for a search for his daughter's name. He...

Posted on June 24, 2009 8:46 AM

Some times I have to point out the most ridiculous threads in the forums. This morning I spotted a thread at Google Web Search Help where a person was complaining that searching in Google Images for the search phrase [nude...

Posted on June 10, 2009 8:38 AM

Last week, we reported for the first time of Google Gadget porn becoming an issue. Well, it is now more widespread then I have ever seen. A new Google AdSense Help thread reports seeing porn in home page of the...

Posted on May 14, 2009 8:33 AM

A Google Web Search Help thread reports that iGoogle is starting to get hit with lots of Google Gadget Porn. Via the thread, I found several Google Gadgets that show pornography including frontal nudity and link to pornographic sites. If...

Posted on May 7, 2009 8:28 AM

Almost two months ago, we asked, Should Google Search Suggestions Show Adult Suggestions? In short, Google, on occasion, showed search suggestion for porn/adult related phrases, as you typed your query. The example I gave then, was when you typed "you,"...

Posted on March 27, 2009 12:55 AM

Yesterday, we reported that Google's Local Business Center was injected by escort services in the Google Maps results (by the way, it is still there). Today, I spotted a thread in Google Maps Help thread with a complaint from a...

Posted on February 12, 2009 9:37 AM

We all know, Google Maps has their share of trouble with spam, including porn and escort services. Heck, even Google admitted the problem yesterday in the Up Close With Google Maps & Local. Now a search for auto insurance los...

Posted on February 11, 2009 9:35 AM

A Google Web Search Help thread has an annoyed searcher who is upset Google's search box offers search suggestions for "youpron" when you type in the word "you." The easy solution is to turn off search suggestions in your search...

Posted on February 9, 2009 7:56 AM

This is not really SEO related but I found this thread at Google Webmaster Help funny. A parent comes on, asks if there are any other ways porn sites can come up in their Google Web History without having access...

Posted on January 28, 2009 3:05 AM

Conduct a search for the child day care site KindyList and you might be presented with a "Did You Mean?" suggestion from Google. The issue is that Google is suggesting you search for Candylist instead, which is far from a...

Posted on December 31, 2008 8:28 AM

We have complained time and time again about Google showing inappropriate images , including explicit porn and other nudity in the Google search results. But it has been getting better overall, that is until I spotted a thread at DigitalPoint...

Posted on December 30, 2008 8:10 AM

It appears Google Germany has removed many, if not all, adult video sites from their index. A Google Groups thread reported this, where an adult video site owner said his Adult Tube site was removed from Google.de and so were...

Posted on September 12, 2008 8:47 AM

Conduct a search for educating in Google and you will see an image of a teacher standing over a student holding a small rod, with the student's pants down leaning over a desk. This is not what one would expect...

Posted on July 23, 2008 7:49 AM

I continue to report porn on Google over here, at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such...

Posted on June 24, 2008 7:14 AM

Warning, clicking on the following Google search result may return an image of extreme pornographic nature. The image is of a woman's vagina and is found on a pornographic site, but the image appears to be hosted on Google's Blogger...

Posted on March 19, 2008 6:50 AM

There were several reports yesterday of an inappropriate image found on the Google News home page. The image was sourced from an Inside Bay Area article, that talked about a new study on youth STD cases. The image shown on...

Posted on October 15, 2007 8:15 AM

The sixth edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. Tim Mayer from Yahoo! was our special guest. Tim told us that we can expect support from Yahoo! on the NOODP tag, but it would be a lot more...

Posted on October 11, 2006 7:18 AM

A reader, reported to me that he found pornographic material on the Google News Home Page, it is live right now. I see it myself, I took a screen capture and blacked out the offensive part. Shocking and I have...

Posted on October 6, 2006 4:19 PM

Web hosts are typically in a very powerful position. One such example is discussed at a Search Engine Watch Forums thread showing how one Webmaster was finding "strange results" in the Google search results pages. The results contained pornographic terms...

Posted on August 14, 2006 7:09 AM