>>Also it is a
>waste of time when you are looking for a page having technical data on
>IC chips and you go to a page having a title that sounds like what you
>are looking for only to find that you are accessing a porn page. (This
>actually happened to me once!
I often start my searches with "-porn -nude -sex -xxx -naked", that will
remove all, or atleast most of, these pages that so often come up. Of
course I take the risk of missing pages that say "this page contains no
nude pictures" or something like it but that's a chance I'm willing to take.
Adding "-crack -warez -mp3 -windows" will often result in less results
which is good except when you search for info on any of these subjects. (I
also liked to add -domain:geocities.com but the last year or so
geocities.com hasn't been so extremly bad as it used to be so I can accept
visiting pages on that server again).
>
Such restrictive search criteria might have some use when searching for
technical data on IC chips, since such a Web page would be unlikely to say
anything about sex, though there is the hazard that the Web page might say
something about Internet users being redirected to a porn site. Or maybe the
company could be located on Essex St (see the "sex" embedded in Essex?), or in a
city or county named Essex or Middlesex. x's could be used to indicate variable
numbers on a sample form, like a Social Security number xxx-xx-xxxx, or
telephone number (xxx) xxx-xxxx.
I have no use for programs like Surf-Watch or Cyber Patrol because of the danger
of excluding nonoffending sites. I believe the online community would be better
off if such programs did not exist. The ultimate cure for an offensive Web site
is to type a different URL. Are there any programs like Surf-Watch for DOS,
OS/2 Warp, BeOS, Linux or any Unix?
