If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn?
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Every female celebrity or politician has "nude" or "naked" somewhere in the suggested searches. To illustrate my point, do a Bing image search for Bill Clinton. Next, try it for Hillary. Not quite as bad, but try image searches for Barack and Michelle Obama. The top three suggestions for Michelle are Ass, Booty, and Butt. They may argue that they're just reflecting what users search for, but I have trouble believing that a lot of people are out there looking for nude photos of Nancy Pelosi.
I do get your point though - Google has, as of late, even with safe search off, made it much more difficult to "trip across" porn on the internet (you really have to be looking for it) - whereas with Bing, it's basically, "We'll show you porn if there is a faint chance that it's relevant) - I.E. "redhead."
And lets be honest a lot of top advertisements have not threaded carefully into innuendoland.
The word you're looking for is "prudishness."
While a smaller corp may ignore the issue, yahoo is big enough that it's guaranteed to have to pay attention to these things.
(Also: I have never heard of "japanese whale" and it worries me)
Forbes' Jeff Bercovici reported Tumblr's board of directors approved Yahoo!'s offer and the Yahoo! board is expected to go along with Mayer's wish to buy Tumblr. There's still a little room for things to fall apart, but it's unlikely that's going to happen. So no, the Yahoo! deal will likely not be falling apart.
Here is a good (and mostly SFW as far as images) Flickr group that advises on how to work within Flickr's terms of service: http://www.flickr.com/groups/unsafe/
So if you are paranoid and don't want to log in and start getting those videos in 'recommended for you' list. Just take the embed code put to it a .html file and open.
data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,
Also note the definition of pornography does not include nudity.
(For the record, I'm pro-porn and pro-sex, sex is great!)
Expecting that minors will respect an "adult" label is laughable, and anybody suggesting so knows it. It only takes a moments ill conceived curiosity to see something that will stay with a kid (or a person in general) forever.
Personally I hope that a company currently lead by a woman takes a hard stance on this issue.
So I think nothing will change.
Are there any figures on what the percentage of adult content is on flickr?
I have no figures what share of that is porn, but since (as an active user of the site) I stumble on it there without even looking I'd say it's very substantial.
In my experience, Tumblr is primarily a platform for young people to "reblog" (i.e. publish and distribute) copyrighted content without the owners' permission.
According to Google AdPlanner, Tumblr has between 14 million unique visitors per moth and between 5 and 10 million page impressions a day. Seriously, how does that justify this kind of a value for the company?
They do 65x million uniques per month and 5.4x billion pageviews.
The most concerning thing for Tumblr, is the fact that they've had zero net growth in traffic and uniques over the last year. And their monthly pageviews are down 2 billion versus a year ago. Their traffic is likely done growing. If Tumblr doesn't sell now, they're in deep shit.