Adult sites in Search Results

It's never happened to me before

[Robert Scott]

Today when I did a search on "free gif editor" I was swamped with adult site results. This has never happened to me with Google before and I haven't changed any settings.

I was able to go into preferences and block the adult sites which dropped the number of results from 577 to 31. However I think it also affected the number of accurate results I got. When I did the same search several days ago I am sure there were many more listings.

Anyone else experienced this?

[Beachboy]

Has to be a glitch. Drop a note about it to Google, I think it's [e-mail]. It will get fixed eventually.

[Brett_Tabke]

Must have been a random glitch. There are currently 400k results for that search and I don't see a single adult site anywhere.

[steveb]

He did the search with quotes. "free gif editor" does show 577 results, with a lot of adult sites. I imagine a lot of those adult sites belong to the same source, who uses the same keyword hidden text template.

[Robert Scott]

I'm still getting adult sites in my results unless I use strict filtering in preferences.

Can someone tell me how many results they receive for the same search and what SafeSearch filter they are using.

[Robert Scott]

Thanks steveb. At least you have confirmed it's not just me getting this rubbish. I will report it to Google.

[Marcia]

Moderate filtering (explicit images only) gives 408,000 returned, all of them OK. Not all are relevant to the search, which is another issue, but nothing's wrong with them.

[Robert Scott]

Thanks Marcia, but I can't duplicate your results. Moderate filtering gives me 577 results with 95% adult.

[Robert Scott]

Sorry Marcia. I did get the same results as you when I didn't use quotes around the search. When I use quotes to restrict the search I get 577 results, mostly adult.

Beachboy's email address for Google bounced. Can anyone suggest another address?

[starec]

[e-mail]

[Marcia]

Robert, there's also a link at the bottom of every page when you search that you can use to give them feedback on the search results.

[Brett_Tabke]

I see Robert. Yep, turn off filtering and use quotes - 494 and a couple of adult sites.

[Robert Scott]

Thanks starec and Marcia. At least I've learnt a bit more about Google thru this problem.

[nutsandbolts]

Ewwwww. Away damn Pr*n, Away!