Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009318, Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:44:45 -0800

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Fw: Googling LOLITA "glabrous"
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From: <naiman@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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> That scientist should have used "glabrous."
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> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
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> > 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.
> > >
> > > Setting moderate filtering, produced links to sites selling Gothic
Lolita
> > > attire.
> > >
> > > Evidently Lolita has a far from scholarly connotation in the wider
world.
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > 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...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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 ..."
> > > >
> > > > Jansy Mello
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >