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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (91615)	1/20/2000 3:22:00 PM
From: gladman	Respond to of 164684

Just when you thought it was safe,,, even reliable Jeeves is a pervert. >>January 20, 2000 AskJeeves.com Ponders New Site To Handle Questions About Sex By RON HARRIS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Ask Jeeves about sex and the stately dot-com butler can provide a user with enough answers to make a sailor blush -- and that's a dilemma for the popular Internet Q&A service. Now Ask Jeeves Inc., Emeryville, Calif., is considering a separate Web site to discriminate between routine inquiries and saucier sex questions. "We're trying to balance the needs of our users without being judgmental," said Ted Briscoe, senior vice president of Ask Jeeves. The company is concerned with offending users who want answers to their questions free of pornographic links. The current Ask Jeeves Web site uses no filters to screen out adult content-related questions, but it does inform users that they need to be 18 years old or older to continue on to adult Web sites. "If you ask about seeing naked pictures of Madonna that would take you to a jump page that lets people know that what you've asked has triggered a response that is adult-related," Mr. Briscoe said. Currently, typing in "Where can I find pictures of Madonna?" -- without the word "naked" -- gives the user links to nude celebrity Web sites. "One of the possible alternatives would be to remove the adult content from our knowledge base altogether," Mr. Briscoe said. The Ask Jeeves database of answers to commonly asked questions is separate from links to third-party Web sites where pornography flourishes. The company has already registered two Internet domain names for a possible alternate adult Ask Jeeves site: www.asksex.com and www.askadult.com. "I think sending people to a different site is a good [idea]," said Aram Sinnreich of Jupiter Communications research firm. However, he cautioned that filtering sex terms can be a difficult task.<<