Fear Not, Those Without Access To Other Avenues To Internet Porn, Google Is Not Really Censoring Results

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
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Be brave, heroes, for the hour is at hand: Google, in their wisdom, is now filtering – or selectively showing – hardcore porn with a bit heavier hand. This means looking up “boobs” on Google brings far fewer bare breasts than before but looking up “orgy facial sex” will definitely bring up some of the sweet stuff.

The change, aimed at returning targeted results, angered Reddit this morning and CNET, stalwart defenders in the search for free porn on the Internet, reported that Google simply tweaked the results of common searches. This prevents wangs from showing up when you’re looking for wieners.

So fear not: this doesn’t mean you’re going to have to switch to Bing to get solid porn thumbnails. It instead means, as our own Darrell Etherington noted, you have to get a little more creative with your search results. In fact, it may be time for the vast majority of searchers to stop looking for “sexy knockers” and maybe, just maybe, refine their sexual vocabulary to reflect the manifold expressions of love, pleasure, and efforts at procreation.