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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

'Google's' erotic search engine

"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – September 15, 2005 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today its plans to enter the lucrative adult content market with a new search engine that will be kept separate from its main line of search services," says the press release.

"Called Grotica, the new service uses sophisticated image processing tools to automatically categorize still photos and movies according to subject matter and degree of explicitness. Google's powerful keyword search functions have been further enhanced for this application with over 3000 synonyms for anatomical terms and erotic activities."

Comment: It's a fake, but the advertising take from http://porn.google.com/ would be phenomenal.....

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