rfgdxm1 - 11:23 pm on Apr 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

>Is Google to have a separate filter to match cultural concepts on sexuality and obscenity?

This is an *excellent* point. The reach of Google is global. Much of the world doesn't see sexuality as that much of an issue. Nudity has long been not uncommon on European broadcast TV. Attitudes toward sexuality vary throughout the world. The English swear word "f---" basically is untranslatable into French, because sexual terms aren't what are the swear words in French.

>hence the need for <meta content="audience" value="adult"> backed up with banning threats / legal controls.

And, how do we implement this as a standard across all search engines? Having the CEOs of all the search engines sit down and agree to such would violate anti-trust laws. And, how can we have *legal* controls when much of the world doesn't see this as much of an issue? As juniperwasting wrote, finding hard core porn mags next to kids mags in Europe is common. D'ya really think if these countries allow that, passing laws requiring such a meta tag is gonna be a priority to parliaments in Europe?