They need a customizable family filter where they break down each of those categories
down ever further and allow people to set their own levels. I can easily
see most employers filter all that from their employees and probably add
on Guns and Stock Options. 8-)
Rajiv Shah wrote:
>
> An interesting feature of the new Image, Video & Audio Search
> on Altavista is their Family Filter is turned on for searches of images,
> video, and audio.
>
> Therefore to view "objectionable" material, you must proactively turn the
> family
> filter off. I know Altavista at one point considered turning on a family
> filter for all of the
> web, but they have now implemented it for a portion of the web.
>
> According to FAQ at http://www.altavista.com/av/content/help_family.html
> Experienced editors from SurfWatch and AltaVista update content lists each
> week to
> provide you with the most current information, minus the objectionable sites.
> SurfWatch blocks in these five categories:
>
> Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco
> Gambling
> Hate Speech
> Sexually Explicit
> Violence
>
> At 04:19 PM 10/21/99 -0700, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:
> >So I've been combing the Altavista site using the Virage Image Engine.
> >I don't know how they do it, but it kicks ass. The company was founded in
> >1994 by Dr. Ramesh Jain from UCSD and looks like it was funded by Adobe
> >Ventures, Compaq Computer, Sutter Hill Ventures Trinity Ventures, Media
> >Technology Ventures, TTC Ventures, and Hambrecht & Quist.
>
> Rajiv Shah
> Email: r-shah4@uiuc.edu
> URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/r-shah4/
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