Originally Posted by thommy

not in regards to porn!

google tries to respect the laws from each and every country (because they have to)
and there are so many filters what are just effecting one or a few countries that the general algo of google does not fit into that.

but i have posted a link before what makes the whole thing a bit clearer - and it says in fact exactly what i have predicted years ago.

they will not ban porn - but they make it harder to get porn results on so called "unsharp keys". this is a learning process also for users. but they learned it with "sex" in a time when we had not that much experienced users as we have now.