Google country bans affect image and directory searching too
One so-far unremarked aspect of the Google country-based site-bans, is that they apply to image searching too.
Compare an image search for stormfront.org in Germany
http://images.google.de/images?q=stormfront.org&safe=off&hl=en
(two results, from www.suffolk.edu)
With the same image search for stormfront.org in the US
http://images.google.com/images?q=stormfront.org&safe=off&hl=en
(many more results, from the stormfront.org site)
Directory searches are also similarly affected
This is yet more confirmation that the restrictions are implemented as a post-processing step using very simple patterns of prohibited results.
By Seth Finkelstein |
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on October 25, 2002 11:31 AM
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