Sex & the Search Engine

[Danny Sullivan]

> It would be good if the major search engines would incorporate
> PICS ratings, for the purpose you described -- filtering out
> irrelevant information, regardless of its offensiveness.  The W3C's
> meta-data The W3C's meta-data initiatives have a goal of merging
> PICS and other meta-data by encoding it as RDF (Resource
> Description Framework). 

Yep, though don't expect that this will necessarily solve anything. 
For a detailed look at why not, see my article from December at:

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/9712-metatags.htm

cheers,
danny

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Danny Sullivan 
Editor, Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com