Los Angeles: It’s not every day that a new search engine takes its place on the Internet, much less one specialising in ranked pornstars as is the case with Boodigo, a tool developed by former Google employees who plan to make it the portal for the adult entertainment industry on the Web. Boodigo made its official debut Sep 15 and “has taken off like a rocket”, Colin Rowntree, one of […]

In his 2008 book Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, the historian Michael Burleigh observes in passing that jihadist martyrdom videos have a similar structure to porn movies. He doesn’t dwell on the point, although he does allude to the climactic “money shot”: in the jihadist case, the moment when the bomber detonates his explosives. In light of the many ISIS propaganda videos that have circulated this summer, […]

In an email sent last month to porn site advertisers on Google’s AdWords network, the company said it will no longer allow ads that contain sexual imagery, “including, but not limited to, hardcore pornography; graphic sexual acts including sex acts such as masturbation; genital, anal, and oral sexual activity.” Google’s AdWords ads appear on millions of sites across the Web. The new rules went into effect this week. The e-mail, […]