Google’s Official Profanity API

http://labs.phurix.net/posts/googles-official-profanity-api

by hm2k • 15 years ago

41 22 15 years ago

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5h• 15 years ago

server dead, not in google cache

mootothemax2• 15 years ago

This Google cache link works for me: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:labs.ph...

gary4gar• 15 years ago

here is copy of the post: http://pastebin.com/8C3EXMZ7

mootothemax2• 15 years ago

Nice, and it passes a couple of examples of the Scunthorpe Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

franze• 15 years ago

basically:

  http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=xxx

click170• 15 years ago

My first thought was "Oh, I wonder if that means the spellcheck on my smartphone will stop substituting 'duck' when I meant to type something more profane." But after reading the article, I guess not.

pornel• 15 years ago

It's publicly accessible, but I wouldn't call it official.

latch• 15 years ago

I once tried to create a list of basic patterns...always thought it'd be more useful than it turned out to be:

https://github.com/mogade/badwords/blob/master/en.txt

Terretta• 15 years ago

5hit, that's a fuhked up list.

vbar• 15 years ago

It's repetitive - when you're checking e.g. for (ph|f)u(c|k|ck|q), there's no need to check cyb[e3]r(ph|f)u(c|k|ck|q) as well...

peteretep• 15 years ago

CPAN, as always, to the rescue:

http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2011041701/lib...

pavel_lishin• 15 years ago

> fixed some broken patterns, added check for dick

My stepfather would be most displeased if he couldn't use his name.

cschneid• 15 years ago

So when the title says official, they actually mean "internal api, dug out of javascript source on a google affiliated site"?

schrototo• 15 years ago

Why oh why does profanity ever need to be filtered out?

maweaver• 15 years ago

> you could try using the Google Profanity API to avoid displaying ads on pages that contain profanities

I assume that must be a requirement of some ad networks

algorias• 15 years ago

Possibly because there's enough of it that it would affect statistical algorithms involving language processing (e.g. google translate)

mhunter• 15 years ago

A maybe condition is necessary.

see: http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=balls

MasterScrat• 15 years ago

Yeah. Even with added SFW context:

> http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=tennis%20balls

> {"response": "true"}

cageface2• 15 years ago

I was hoping this was an API for generating profanity.

ldamerow• 15 years ago

Just feed the Outbursts of Everett True into a Markov generator!

cageface2• 15 years ago

Scurries off to his keyboard to start hacking...

snorkel• 15 years ago

What the {"response": "true"} is this {"response": "true"} thing? A {"response": "true"} cache page? Are you {"response": "true"} {"response": "true"} me?! Do you really need a {"response": "true"} JSON API to do the work of a stupid {"response": "true"} array lookup? {"response": "true"}!!!

Google’s Official Profanity API

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