The Jason Salas Experience

I was messing around with the GoogleVideoUploader utility required to submit clips to Google Video and part of being able to do so is to comply with a rule that you're knowingly not submitting pornography. I found this interesting, seeing as how Google Search and eventually Google Image Search have long been a repository for people to find links to adult material. Google Base did have a lot of mature classifieds posted initially, but has taken steps to scale back, if not rid, the service of such stuff following complaints.

Seeing as how running a search service on the Web would inevitably run into such controversy, it's interesting to note the quality control measures put into place for each platform. A mature content filter can be toggled to block out offensive information and images. The video service at the moment won't tolerate it at all. It's a necessary evil.

To either completely ignore or freely allow blue content would be suicide from a usability standpoint, with special interest groups on one end of the spectrum getting angered at the (in)ability to (not) access content.

But at the moment, I'm impressed with their efforts to control what people access.