Bernie wrote: >>Sam Heywood wrote: >One of the problems with "Surf-Watch" and other programs designed to >prevent children from accessing "bad" sites is that these programs are >not capable of performing "smart exclusions". Yes, a good example is "blow" and "job" - put together they form a word that only is on porn sites - but each word can have other meanings as well. I tried to find a mpeg editor yesterday (just to see if one existed that was free) and of course I needed to add "-porn -xxx" even on such a search to get rid of the porn sites. (I found one made in Java for Win9x - I wonder why it required Win9x if it was in Java - any suggestions on other programs is appreciated). Quite frankly I'm using the search engines less and less since they: a. *always* (almost anyway) lists porn sites b. give pages that have been down a long time (well mostly Altavista gives this problem) I'm also trying to figure out why I so often lately when I visit pages (yahoo.com, google.com etc.) end up at completly diffrent sites (or at times at a page entitled "test" with no other HTML then the <TITLE> tag. Is it my ISP (that had much trouble with mail a month ago) or my Internet sharing program?<< The search engine that I have found that gives the best results is "infind" (www.infind.com). While it does often give pages that are down, that is because it uses other search engines, and does not maintain its own list of sites. I have not had any problem with it including porn sites. I also have not had the problem of being redirected to pages entitled, "test," although I have gone to pages which had been changed to a different URL. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA
