On May 25, 2006, Yahoo's image search was criticized for bringing up sexually explicit images even when SafeSearch was active.
(meta data) TITLE:  Yahoo! image search exposes school to porn | The Register  66 captures 30 Jun 2006 - 26 Apr 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: 51_crawl this data is currently not publicly accessible. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20080122065744/http://www.theregister.co.uk:80/2006/05/25/yahoo_school_project/ Skip to content Biting the hand that feeds IT Cash 'n' Carrion Reg Hardware Reg Developer Channel Register ### News Tools Newsletters & Feeds Reg Mobile Reg Desktop News Alerts ### Reg Shops Reg Merchandise Books/Online Learning Mobile Gadgets ### Top Stories RIAA told to pay legal fees for harrassed defendant BBC: Death by a thousand top-slices Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia CD copying OK, DRM circumvention not OK Read more top stories ### Related Whitepapers Desktop Support : The Hub of IT Watch the webcast of The Register's recent desktop support seminar Round Table Discussion on Virtualization The Reg editors, readers and industry experts discuss virtualization Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Infrastructure Achieve your cost-saving goals The Register's Virtualization Study Results Tony Lock on the findings of The Register's Virtualization Study Licensing in a Virtualized World Dale Vile on Licensing in a Virtualized World Virtualization Management John Gilmartin on Virtualization Management The Register » Music and Media » ## Yahoo! image search exposes school to porn ### Safe! Mode! Useless! By Chris Williams → More by this authorPublished Thursday 25th May 2006 13:34 GMT Green Computing - Where do you stand? Vulnerable young minds were nearly exposed to an eye-popping smut gallery by Yahoo!'s image search – running in safe mode. A school in Shanghai was set to ask students to enter "www" as a search term as part of a class project about the internet. On a dry run however, the teacher noticed the search via both yahoo.com and yahoo.co.uk produced an array of net sleaze, along with a picture of a car full of bloody animal carcasses. Ray Miles, network coordinator at the British school said: "These adult images were not entirely what the teacher at the school was hoping to see when doing some research on the World Wide Web, and it is a good job he brought it to our attention before the senior school was let loose on this project! Needless to say we have banned the students from accessing Yahoo! until further notice!" The school contacted Yahoo! to complain. The company acknowledged the problem and said it had "escalated the issue to our engineering team for review". A spokesperson told The Reg: "Yahoo! is aware of this issue and is working to resolve it as quickly as possible." Just nobody tell the kids.® Track this type of story as a custom Atom/RSS feed or by email. ### Related stories Was Julie Amero wrongly convicted? (14 February 2007)British men prefer porn to sex (30 May 2006)Ebay! cuddles! up! to! Yahoo! (25 May 2006)Search results lead to malicious sites (16 May 2006)ICANN chokes off .xxx porn registry (11 May 2006)3 Italy faces porn probe (8 May 2006)Yahoo! upgrades ads (8 May 2006)Adult film industry trials burnable content (21 April 2006) Post to Slashdot Digg this Add to del.icio.us Previous Article Next Article Microsoft Forefront makes defending your systems easier. Learn how at easyeasier.com What's your take on the great Green rush? Join the debate here. The Microsoft Partner Program: Click to see your Map to Success Meet the fast-growing demand for notebooks with HP Download industry whitepapers and research - free of charge Join Nortel's Partner Program Microsoft System Center - Designed For Big Boost online sales with EV SSL Certificates from VeriSign Deliver HP blade servers to your midsize customers Defy All Challenges - Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Promote your Events and Training courses for free Latest Mobile Gadgets Making mobility manageable Targeted Trojans: A new online threat to businesses The implications of Hyperconnectivity Managing the Performance and Availability of .NET Applications 'Samsung i620 Value Pack (Unlocked, QWERTY, Black)' HTC MTeoR Smartphone Sony Ericsson K810i Value Pack 'E-TEN glofiish M800 (Unlocked, QWERTY, GPS)' 'Samsung Q1U-V Q1 Ultra (800MHz,1GB,60GB,Vista Home)' 'Nokia N73 Music Edition (Unlocked, Black)' 'HTC Advantage X7501 (Unlocked, QWERTY, No Conference Cam)' Roundtable discussion Watch online NOW Top 20 stories All The Week's Headlines • Archive © Copyright 2008
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Human rights groups also accuse Yahoo of aiding authorities in the arrest of dissidents Li Zhi and Jiang Lijun. In April 2017, Yahoo was sued for failing to uphold settlement agreements in this case. Yahoo pledged to give support to the families of those arrested and create a relief fund for those persecuted for expressing their views online with Yahoo Human Rights Trust. Of the $17.3 million allotted to this fund, $13 million had been used for a townhouse in Washington, DC and other purchases. 
 In September 2003, dissident Wang Xiaoning was convicted of charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Yahoo Hong Kong connected Wang's group to a specific Yahoo e-mail address. Both Xiaoning's wife and the World Organization for Human Rights sued Yahoo under human rights laws on behalf of Wang and Shi. 
 As a result of media scrutiny relating to Internet child predators and a lack of significant ad revenues, Yahoo's "user created" chatrooms were closed down in June 2005.