Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009315, Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:31:21 -0800

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Googling LOLITA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergej Aksenov" <aksenov@freeshell.org>
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> Hi, You can filter your Google results; once your search results are
> displayed, on top of the page there is a link to Preferences, where you
> can set an option to filter out explicit images and content. This I
> thought would get rid of the porn stuff. It did- but the word lolita was
> gone as well (of which google informed me) because it is apparently in the
> list of Google's keywords for sex material.
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> Setting moderate filtering, produced links to sites selling Gothic Lolita
> attire.
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> Evidently Lolita has a far from scholarly connotation in the wider world.
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> I heard a talk a while ago by a genomics scientist who gave an example of
> using google to search for "hairless", with obvious uselss results...
> (he was looking for information on hairless mice having e.g. cancer).
>
> Sergej
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> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> > From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
> > To: D. Barton Johnson
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: Dividas ameacam ...returning to googling clatharate...
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> >
> >
> > Hello, Brian Howell and list...
> >
> > Googling brings dangers to those unaware of porn.
> > I tried searching "Lolita skirt" and disaster was in store. When asking
for "Fifties Skirt", it worked, also when writing only "Clathrate", which
revealed oils and chemistry.
> > A search in "Clathrate skirts" was again not very productive. After the
Lolitas, I was sent back to porn, now with clathery-rated bouncy words .
> >
> > Conclusion: VN is ungoogable.
> >
> > Added perplexity: How did this checkered latticed flying "clathrate"
word enter the sex show? Adverstisings ran: "Cothurnated huntsmanship (...)
irradiate CLATHRATE bander" in one address and, in another: " rancidly
latino supermodels CLATHARATE and galangal ..."
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> > Jansy Mello
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