Tumblr Renders Sexually-Oriented Blogs Unsearchable

Affects about 10 percent of content. Only 10 percent?

When Yahoo bought Tumblr, it suggested that its adult and porn blogs would be left alone.

Users found out this wasn't true when a new adult blog search policy went public on Thursday, capping Tumblr's quarantine on adult content, which now also includes excluding adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.

The changes render an estimated 10% of Tumblr's userbase invisible and unfindable.

Now, around 12 million Tumblr blogs marked "adult" have been removed from Tumblr's internal search; this follows the revelation two months ago that adult blogs were no longer indexed by Google, and the pre-sale removal of Tumblr's "Erotica" category from its category index.

Comments

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Sorry SugarFree.

[ant1sthenes]

So, you're saying that Tumblr is discriminating based on sexual orientation?

[Tywest01]

I'll take a few! I need users to help test my blog network. I think what Yahoo fails to realize is that users may have more than one blog on Tumblr. Like having more than one facet to their personality, users may have a blog for work, one for a passion, and one for the porn that gets them hot. Pissing them off by effectively killing one aspect of their expression could make them abandon the platform altogether.

And, I'll take 'em.

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