Im curious, how when you go about building an engine. Do you filter out adult content? I never did get how they do it. Alot of sites have the word sex in it and free porn, and it never links to a porn website in like yahoo if you have it set up a certain way. The same with movies and images. I figured I might ask you this since you are in on a search engine.
First surch uses many (14 to be exact) data sources and as tvcokecan pointed out, thats in addition to our own but to filter out adult content you should have a filtration system in place... To be honest thats an area of surch I don't really work with and I do know that surch hasn't really focused on this to much yet as there are more pressing issues at hand but you will notice in the "preferences" of surch there is a family filter...again its not that great and if I'm correct its something off the shelf as we haven't finished out our own process for this portion of the engine but... To put it very simple adult content filters like spam filters look for many things that meet or match certain criteria... If you've ever used a content filter for email such as spam assassin or something and been victim of some ruthless spammers you will know that there are many ways around them such as gross misspellings like "haaaaaair regrowwwth" or something... again its all in how its setup, what it looks for etc... I think tvcokecan uses some filters as well or a human editing one at least... am I right TV?
If you've been looking at your referral's logs lately, you should be noticing some referrals coming from education facilities and schools. That's from me. I've been freely promoting your site at schools and among students for research. G'luck.
Err, alright, I PM'ed you. Good luck with Surch. I love it so far! EasyMarketer: Next time, instead of making a new thread towards someone, PM them ya dope!
Yeah, we use a human system that allows for users to say if they want to filter results, aswell as using a system based apon keywords and movie names, I am sure you know which keywords We use regex to search for keywords that spammers might use and ranking on likeyness of the site being adult, so far its worked perfectly, however as we grow it might need tweaking.