Politech: FC: Baby site mislabeled as porn shows hazards of Web robots

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Suggested solution: Bill puts up ads on Fiona's JPEG pages and cashes in
on the horny pornhounds' misdirected hits. --Declan]


http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/0831tech1xfiles.htm

Baby site mislabeled as porn shows hazards of Web robots
08/31/99
By Pete Slover / The Dallas Morning News

Dallas photographer Bill Maselunas was curious when he started noticing
hits on his family Web site from the search index at
search.thunderstone.com. 

Curious turned to furious when he went to the Thunderstone site and
learned that his Web page - including snapshots of his 9-month-old
daughter, Fiona - had been classified as triple-X porn by Thunderstone's
automated indexing software. It apparently interpreted references to the
infant cooing and giggling as smut.

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