Firefox add-on Glubble too clunky and restrictive as a children's Internet filter
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 76.26.86.213]
on July 21, 2008 11:51 PM
The best way to for these kinds of services to work is to tap into the wisdom of crowds using learning algorithms. Just as Gmail's spam filter went from allowing 20-30% of spam through to below 1% (because people "taught" it what constituted spam by pressing the Spam button), these services could have a function that allowed parents to RATE web sites using various categories, for example, 0-3 years, 3-6, 6-10, 10-14, 14-17. You could then set the age level at which you wanted content filtered. It would do poorly at first, but get very good over time.
In the best scenario, it wouldn't just take the average scores for certain domains or web pages, but implement a natural language algorithm that parsed sentences and "understood" context (like the one PowerSet is developing -- in fact, I see a business opportunity for them there), which could then be applied to web sites that are not in the database. However, this last option may be too advanced for the technology we have right now.
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Firefox add-on Glubble too clunky and restrictive as a children's Internet filter
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 76.26.86.213] on July 21, 2008 11:51 PMIn the best scenario, it wouldn't just take the average scores for certain domains or web pages, but implement a natural language algorithm that parsed sentences and "understood" context (like the one PowerSet is developing -- in fact, I see a business opportunity for them there), which could then be applied to web sites that are not in the database. However, this last option may be too advanced for the technology we have right now.
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