Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch
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Description: Results of research conducted by Benjamin Edelman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.
Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch This research is part of a series of projects with Google offers interested users a version of its search engine restricted by a service it calls SafeSearch, intended to omit references to sites with "pornography and explicit sexual content." However, testing indicates that SafeSearch blocks at least tens of thousands of web pages without any sexually-explicit content, whether graphical or textual. Blocked results include sites operated by educational institutions, non-profits, news media, and national and local governments. Among searches on sensitive topics such as reproductive health, SafeSearch blocks results in a way that seems essentially random; it is difficult to construct a rational non-arbitrary basis for which pages are allowed and which are omitted. See
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| Page title: | Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch |
| Keywords: | internet filtering pornography google safesearch accuracy research data analysis testing ben edelman berkman center harvard law school filtering blocking censorware |
| Description: | Original research analyzes the accuracy of Google SafeSearch and reports some 15,000+ URLs mistakenly omitted by SafeSearch. |
| IP-address: | 128.103.64.74 |
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| NS | Name Servers: EXTERNALDNS-C1.HARVARD.EDU 128.103.200.35 EXTERNALDNS-C2.HARVARD.EDU 128.103.200.51 |
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| Date | activated: 27-Jun-1985 last updated: 04-Sep-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |