Google gets porn Gadgets

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It has not been the best of days for Google. First there were the reports about Gumblar, a Google SERPs manipulation that is growing at an unprecedented rate. And now it seems that porn has been thrown into the Google mix, or at least into the Google Gadgets mix.

I was first alerted to the problem by which appeared the official Google AdSense support forums which revealed that the main Google Gadget Directory page included not one, but two, explicit sex related Gadgets. One is called Akrosex Sex Videos and the other Beautiful Naked Women Pics. You could not exactly say that these Gadgets were hiding their true colours under deliberately inoffensive names, but then the icon images for both were obviously sexual in nature as well.

Whereas Apple is filtering out anything vaguely offensive from the App Store, it would appear that Google has fallen asleep on the job as far as screening offensive material from the Gadget Directory. Oddly, early reports showed that the sites behind the Gadgets also had AdSense adverts on them but these were quickly removed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the Google Gadget Directory. At the time of writing, more than a day after the Gadgets were first reported as being shown, they remain in full view. Both Gadgets have full nudity and sexually explicit photographs in violation of the terms and conditions of Google Gadgets.

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As reported, explicit entries appeared in the Google Gadget Directory, which raises two practical issues that the thread does not fully cover: how to preserve clear evidence for reporting, and how publishers/site owners should respond to protect accounts and reputation. ’s short reaction captures the shock, but the next steps are administrative and technical.

Preservation and escalation checklist:

  • Document everything. Capture full-page screenshots (address bar visible) with timestamps, save the gadget page HTML and any visible ad markup, and record the exact URLs and gadget author/ID shown on the directory page.
  • If an AdSense account may be implicated, check the account dashboard and any policy/notification areas for alerts. Save copies of any notices and timestamps of the discovered content.
  • Report through the product’s abuse/support channel. Provide the saved evidence, clear descriptions, and exact URLs. If the gadget appears to violate copyright or contains personal images, include that detail so the correct removal path (copyright/abuse) is used.
  • If a site appears compromised (the Gumblar-style concern mentioned earlier), run a file-integrity check, scan for injected scripts, rotate credentials, and restore from a known-clean backup if necessary.

Monitoring and prevention:

  • Add server-log and referrer checks to spot unexpected inbound traffic and widget usage.
  • Create alerts for mentions of the domain or brand name, and periodically review any third-party widgets embedded on sites.
  • Require review for any user-submitted widgets and keep regular backups and strong authentication on all accounts.

A final note: keep reports and evidence private when escalating to Google or site administrators; public linking to explicit pages only spreads the problem. If forum members have preserved the original evidence collected, passing that privately to the appropriate support channel will speed resolution.

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