Google’s porn education !
We all know what Google preaches on the quality of their searches, we all know how confident are their engineers on the quality of their services and how proud are these guys with their achievements. A few days ago I was reading about Google’s double standards when it comes to the length of the title (I will blog about this later), now I see they start providing silly results . (I knew they sometimes display totally unrelated results but this is something disgusting).
Thinking that yet another update will be in place anytime soon, you may see websites jumping all the way around, you may get different results for the same search term within a few minutes, etc… This is normal and it’s called “Google Dance”. What I would like to bring to your attention is not the above “phenomenon” but something else that makes me think if the “G” guys are really serious in what they are doing.
Doing a simple search for the term “educating” will obviously get you to a page with the most relevant 10 results for the word “educating”. Apart from these 10 results you will probably see the Adsense bar on the right hand side where people pay to get listed for specific search terms and on top of all the results you will see the 3 most relevant images for the search term you just entered.
Well…surprise, surprise…searching for “educating” will bring a cartoon with a lady teaching kids about umbrellas (very relevant, isn’t it?), an image with a couple of children in the classroom and guess what… a porn picture! I thought it might be a sort of temporary glitch so I have refreshed the page, close it, opened a new one for about an hour. The same picture appeared on the top of all searches right by the paid advertisement of direct.gov.uk , the main UK educational portal!
I obviously took a screen shot, you may want to check it below. Not trying to be funny or to criticise Google but think this way…how many people, how many children search for “educating” every day? I also seriously doubt the British Government will be too happy to see their educational paid ad alongside a porn picture.
Well done, Google! Keep up the good work! (click on photo to enlarge)
