City of Amnesia

So I just got on youtube and looked under suggested for you videos. Usually I get some interesting ones like amvs and funny videos. But just now when I looked there was a video called "show me your genitals" right next to a final fantasy video.
.......... The whole reason I got this video was because I watched a Japanese amv for Japan MAD and Big O/ King of Thorns. I get maybe having a video on sexual innuendos show up, but this?

Google did this to me the other day. I looked up the music genre Japanese funk, but it came back "did you mean Japanese fuck?"

Where did all the decency in the world go? Even youtube has gotten so dirty I no longer wish to look.

Seriously, WTF.

Yuko,

I know what you mean... You should see what comes up when you Google Search ' +"The Big O" ', ' +"The Big O" +"Angel" ', or ' +"The Big O" +"cosplay" '. True, I knew the other meaning of "The Big O", I just thought it wouldn't lean toward that definition.

Maybe your SafeSearch filtering has changed, or gotten corrupted. See if this will fix it...

Look in the upper right corner, and you'll see these items "iGoogle | Search settings | Sign in"

Click on Search settings...
Under "SafeSearch Filtering" (4th section), you'll see:

• Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
• Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
• Do not filter my search results

Make sure that your filltering is either "moderate" or "strict". It looks like you also have the option of locking SafeSearch, which will apply strict filtering to all searches from your PC using Internet Explorer. Note also that moderate filterig only filters explicit images, not crude language.

Japanese funk? Sounds cool. Maybe I'll check it out... I've been checking out old Parliament stuff (George Clinton - no relation to Bill).

- Final

I think you misunderstand me a little.
When I'm looking at google images I actually expect that and don't mind it. But when I look for something unrelated and that comes up it can get interesting very fast.

BTW a good way to avoid the pr0n's when googling the Big O is to just type Big O and what you want related to that. Hell of a lot less pr0n shows up. Only sex sites put "the" in front of Big O. For example typing in Big O cosplay has little to no pr0n, except for some hentai scans and a couple gardivoir pics (pokemon,  wtf), and mostly will have cosplayers and anime pics.
But if you put "the" in that search a whole lotta pr0n's come up.
Speaking of which I just found some cosplay pics I don't have. Gonna go save them. dododo.

I think it happed with text as well as images, which is what was so annoying. I was trying to rediscover cosplay pictures of Angel and Roger, whose host website I had forgotten. Maybe Google has gotten more strict on it's text results now? I guess your right, usually more of the crude stuff shows up in image searches than in text searches.


If your SafeSearch settings are OK, then the only thing I can think of is that maybe Google employed some sort of heuristic to your search, and based on past results of that heuristic, it came up with that suggestion for "Japanese funk".  ??? Unless funk music is considered romantic in Japan? Yeah, right.... ::) Maybe pr0n sites included "funk" in their webpage code, confusing search engines. (Which apparently works, because I've spotted some of these traps within past Google results before I could make the mistake of navigating to the sites.)




"Big O" would still return alot of unfavorable results for me (some not pr0n, but still undesirable), even if combined with "Angel" or "Dorothy" (which, I'll admit is are popular girls names). Adding "cosplay" into the search would help, but only a little. (Perhaps the pr0n sites confused the search engines by inserting "cosplay" into their webpage code?)

I think I ended up just "wading" through it (as one would go through a murky swamp), to find the "Roger", Dorothy, and "Angel" costumes, which I had to admit were well done, and made it worth sorting through the "junk". The only annoying thing was how many "junk" images showed up in front of the good ones. Unfortunately, I didn't think to save the cosplay images, which would have not having to search again.

Oh well, at least I'm not like one friend's father, who planned a trip to Thailand, but mispelled "Bangkok" in his search...  :o No, I'm not kidding... According to my friend, "interesting" (used sarcastically, of course) wouldn't even begin to describe the results they got back. It was not good...

Really? They're just now starting to scare you?

I won't even begin to tell you about some of the things I've come across at both places (and God save us all from Twitter), but there are ways to clean up your searches, particularly by narrowing them down. You can use quotation marks and "+" signs to connect words together into more cohesive strings, and the more words you use overall, the more specific your results will be. You can use the total number of results as a gauge of how well you're doing; lower is always better.

Final has a point about some pr0n sites including irrelevant tags to attract hits. I haven't noticed it that much on my own experience, but enough to know that it's done. Not a lot you can do about this, I'm afraid, although maybe, maybe, if you're really feeling desperate to make even the most infinitesimal difference, you could report the site to Google.

I'm about 70% sure this thing has got to be the dragon mentioned in revelation.

It certainly has enough horny heads.

*ba-dum-TISH*

Randolf, stop looking up fetishes on Wikipedia.

Way ahead of you, R. Dan. Way ahead of you.

Rule 34 is a distressing existential truth about the internet, and the modern world as we know it.

I'd bet money that Rule 34 is literally the only rule. Like, there's just no Rule 33 or Rule 35-- and no chance in Rainbow Hades of a Rule 1 or a Rule 100.

Which is kind of a testament to Rule 34's power, depending on how you look it at; as if it pounced upon and devoured every other potential rule, wallowed in digestion for a generation and finally disgorged a caustic, pustular monument to its omnipresent, brain-melting power.

...great, now I sound like Sharp.

Welcome to the party, it gets stranger and less pleasant from here on out

I have always wondered, Sharp; just how much do you know? How much have you seen? What scars do you bear? What pearl of terrible understanding did you pay a piece of your sanity for?

Because if you've already been irradiated, and are thus immune to further exposure, maybe you can give me a hand trying to heat and compress 4chan inside the Tokamak reactor until it collapses into a fusion reaction powerful enough to be seen from Neptune for three millennia.

Rule 32: it needs more desu.      My Japanese teacher does this without trying, as after every English sentence she usually says desu.
Rule 35: if porn does not exist of it it will be made.
Rule 60: there is always something worse then what you have just seen, always. No Exceptions.
Rule 84: it needs more uuigi, a miss spelling of luigi.


These rules do exist, but the rest are still trying to find where they fit in.

Does she have heterochromatic eyes because that would just be fantastic.


If nine were still here I'd just go copypasta and appropriately edit Kurtz's monologue from Apocalypse Now so that it was about twitter.

Also I looked at the imdb quote and thats a big chunk of text and I don't feel like it at the moment

No, my Japanese teacher is a plain Japanese person, no strange eye colors or funny hair colors.

32 - Yes, I concur...
35 - Yes, but let's not forget
...Rule 36 - It will never be porn that you really want to see, and you can never make requests...

I always live by:

Rule 42: Always keep your towel by your side, so when you're visually assaulted, you can just wrap your entire head with it (and above all don't panic)...

Bump (my first bump here...how exciting)

It's funny how a thread starts, and then evolves, but we forget what started the whole thing.

Here, Yuko, you wanted Japanese funk. I present to you.....Q.A.S.B!

Q.A.S.B. / "Funk With Me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ePS1Wg_ok&feature=related)
Q.A.S.B. - Japanese Funk Band. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R06UOXEbcDY)

and as a bonus, how about some American Funk -
"I, Robot" by The Alan Parsons Project (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td56XAHxLpw)
"Right Place, Wrong Time" by Dr. John (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRDMu87tl0)

UPDATE 1/5/2011: Um, I guess you can add Bing to the scare list. I typed in the word "undid" into Bing because I undid some steps in a database, and wasn't sure if undid was a valid word, and also if it was hyphenated. In the related searches on the left I see "He Undid Her". What the heck?!?