Word filter

**fuzzy** · 02-22-2011,04:51 AM

From another thread:

Originally Posted by garyopa

We had to block alot of "bad words", because of Google, they are blocking instant search results if the "thread" contains a "bad word", and if you viewing a page with a "bad word" on it, their Adsense ads will NOT display, and that was causing a large drop in "ad money" used to support the bandwidth costs here, because of the recent release of the "F*ckPSN" program we had tons of people browsing or searching that forum, causing "no revenue for us".

Sadly censor had to be put in place for some of those commonly used american-colorful additions to our english lang. but you can thank Google for being the "nazi-search-robot" of the 21th era!

Oh fuсk. I suppose, doing on-the-fly censoring if(User-Agent: Googlebot) might work, but isn't the nice thing to do?

/edit: Better would be on-the-fly censoring for unregistered users?

**garyopa** · 02-22-2011,07:43 AM

Sadly the censor options are very limited, I going to study various thirdparty plugins that will do a better job in controlling the censor, but I needed to do something fast because I noticed the moment the threads were filled with that F&$;(ckPSN program name in titles there was a drop in over $20 per day and direct large percent drop in direct search results going to the latest threads!

**Xeauron** · 02-22-2011,07:56 AM

I was going to say, I noticed you added a swear filter. Though I initially put it down to the influx of new users swarming the forums and swearing every ten seconds, had no Idea google was so strict in it's search policy. I would have thought it would be down to the user searching google to have the appropreate settings enabled to block swearing, not the other way around.

**garyopa** · 02-22-2011,12:08 PM

It the new instant search that controlled if you want our site to be included in the "no need for enter" as you type what you are looking for there has to be no bad words in the "thread title" that is converted into a static URL by vbseo

What I need to do is find a better plugin that can censor the thread title not the body of messages as it the titles that cause the instant search/ad ban by google!

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