FrontPage to incorporate ICRA ratings.

Webmaster, rate thyself.

[grelmar]

Microsoft has just announced that FrontPage will begin to incorporate and support the ICRA meta tag rating system. ZDnet article [news.zdnet.co.uk].

[sarcasm]Frontpage will be the first design tool to incorporate the rating system. Internet Explorer might include support for ICRA in the future. Just goes to show MS is a real innovator.[/sarcasm]

Does anyone think for a minute that the irresponsible spam kings and porn kings out there are actually going to use this?

[SEOMike]

I doubt it, but maybe someday results will be filtered by ratings, and without one, you won't get it. Just a thought.

[drbrain]

ICRA is just a new name and face for RASCi, so saying you "support ICRA" is marketing on consumer confusion. See [rsac.org...] They've been around since 1999, and this is the first we've seen of them?

It seems to me RASCi dropped out of public mindshare, so they needed a new face and name to try to get people to use the thing.

I doubt its going to do much better this time around.

[grelmar]

I didn't think it was gonna go anywhere, I just found it more amusing than anything.

And if you go by the ICRA website, you find the most telling piece of evidence that they're not going to go anywhere:

Board Members: 18
Staff: 4

[jdMorgan]

> Internet Explorer might include support for ICRA in the future.

Bad reporting. IE supports RSACi, and has supported it for years. I installed the RSACi .rat file on my kids' computer at last two years ago, and had the ICRA and SafeSurf .rat files on there for several years before that.

Internet Explorer->Tools->Content->Content Advisor will get you to the settings.

Maybe they mean that MS will enable the Content Advisor by default at some time in the future.

Jim

[SEOMike]

Board Members: 18
Staff: 4

HAHAHA Oh man <sniff> I'm laughing so hard now! How can they POSSIBLY get anything done like that?! Wow! The staffers are probably titled like this: President, Senior VP, VP, Junior VP. HAHHA

Seriosuly though... how long until some form of standard rating system is required? I think it's a great idea! Say your child is doing a search on breast cancer... what do you think the odds of a porn site coming up are? Pretty good I'd say. That's not somewhere I'd want a child going, and if results are filtered by rating, and you needed a confirmed age to get the adult results, the net would be a lot more safe. Am I being nieve here?