Google Search Has No Objective Metric For Adultness
Google’s John Mueller said that the search company would now not have faith “honest metric for adultness.” He said if it be vital to have faith some form of course on what Google Search would take into consideration grownup content that could be filtered by SafeSearch, exercise the content insurance policies aid doc as a “rough classification” for that.
John said this on Twitter “There is now not any honest metric for “adultness”. Even as you is at likelihood of be doing this for SafeSearch, I could possibly per chance exercise the rough classifications at… I create no longer know the vital aspects of News. For Search, cramped facets would no longer skew the bigger characterize.”
Here are these tweets in context with Lily Ray’s questions:
Some questions for @JohnMu / @dannysullivan :
How “grownup” does “grownup content” have faith to be to justify including the meta label?
Does informational (but per chance graphic) content about intercourse & relationships descend into this category?
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— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) November 1, 2021
There is now not any honest metric for “adultness”. Even as you is at likelihood of be doing this for SafeSearch, I could possibly per chance exercise the rough classifications at https://t.co/hvdqDjtMdE . I create no longer know the vital aspects of News. For Search, cramped facets would no longer skew the bigger characterize.
— 🧀 John 🧀 (@JohnMu) November 1, 2021
The content insurance policies aid doc defines sexual content as “content that contains nudity, graphic intercourse acts, or sexually particular subject matter. Medical or scientific phrases linked to human anatomy or intercourse training are current.”
I am no longer obvious how precious that is – but that is what John is announcing would clear out content with Google’s SafeSearch.
Danny Sullivan from Google responded as effectively:
That is designed to aid us with SafeSearch, so I could possibly per chance study to the page about SafeSearch for guidance: “Command outcomes contain sexually particular content esteem pornography, violence, and gore.”https://t.co/JD5AdoyBDf
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) November 2, 2021
So for now, I could possibly per chance work to these definitions. We are able to retract a study at per chance including more to our aid set aside of residing in due course.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) November 2, 2021
Dialogue board dialogue at Twitter.
