When I did a mini-review of Google Base for last week's Technology section, I mentioned the possibility of it being overwhelmed with porn and spam -- a risk that seems so obvious, I couldn't understand why I didn't see it mentioned in any of the earlier coverage.
Of course, Google has a SafeSearch feature that should prevent porn from showing up in standard results, but this week "a technical glitch ... allowed porn to leak into Google Base search results," reports CNet.
Todd Ripley, a real estate investor in Asheville, N.C., noticed the problem on Tuesday morning after he uploaded photos of his 2-year-old daughter Jasmine onto his Google Base page. He planned to direct his family to the page but decided against it after a search for "Jasmine" turned up some unsavory results despite the use of the SafeSearch filter.
"I was just shocked," Ripley said. "I was inundated with page after page after page of basically porn sites."
