Google search would not have an goal metric on grownup content material

Google’s John Mueller said the search company lacks “objective metrics for adulthood.” He said if you need guidance on what Google Search considers to be adult content that SafeSearch might filter, use the content guidelines help document as a “rough classification”.

John said that Twitter “There is no objective metric for ‘adulthood’. If you did this for SafeSearch, I’d take the rough classifications under … I don’t know the details of news, bigger picture.”

Here are these tweets related to Lily Ray’s questions:

Some questions to @JohnMu / @dannysullivan :

How “adult” does “adult content” have to be to justify adding the meta tag?

Does informative (but maybe graphical) content about sex and relationships fall into this category?

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– Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) November 1, 2021

There is no such thing as an objective metric for “adulthood”. If you were doing this for SafeSearch I would use the rough classifications below https://t.co/hvdqDjtMdE . I don’t know the details from News. When searching, small parts would not distort the overall picture.

– 🧀 John 🧀 (@JohnMu) November 1, 2021

The content guidelines help document defines sexual content as “Content that includes nudity, vivid sexual acts, or sexually explicit material. Medical or scientific terms relating to human anatomy or sex education are acceptable.”

I’m not sure how helpful this is – but John says he’d use SafeSearch to filter out content from Google.

Google’s Danny Sullivan also replied:

This is supposed to help us at SafeSearch, so I would visit the SafeSearch page for guidance: “Explicit results include sexually explicit content like pornography, violence and gore.”https://t.co/JD5AdoyBDf

– Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) November 2, 2021

So for the time being, I would work according to these definitions. We can take a look to maybe add more to our help section in the future.

– Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) November 2, 2021

Forum discussion at Twitter.