The changes were made in the search algorithm, but were exacerbated by the fact that Google’s SafeSearch feature has been altered as well.
You’ll just have to trust me here that most of what is under that censored blob is not very family friendly. To demonstrate the difference, here is a search for a colloquial term, I’m sure you can figure it out, on in the US:Īnd here is the same search from .uk, with SafeSearch turned off: This is a change from how it worked previously, as it would not show you explicit results at all, though it would attempt to filter the results to deliver non-explicit images that matched your term. That search returns nude results, but with a notice that you must disable SafeSearch in order to see them. Instead of ‘ boobs‘, for instance, you can search for ‘ nude boobs‘. It appears as if, even without SafeSearch turned on, users are having to search for much more specific terms to get results that are explicit. Now, the search returns mostly clothed results. With SafeSearch off previously, a search for a simple term like ‘boobs’ would return both clothed and unclothed breasts. The furor over the change appears to originate with the behavior Google’s SafeSearch feature, which has been altered. Update: Google issued a statement about the changes, we’ve included it below. The issues were discovered by folks around the net, including some on Reddit and in a Google Groups thread, and we delved into it to see if we could pin down what the issues were. Google’s SafeSearch setting and images search algorithm appear to have been altered significantly for users in the US and elsewhere, as previously explicit searches are not returning explicit results.
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