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Check your cursing with Google

Google has inadvertently created an API that third-party developers can use to check whether a word entered by a user is likely to be offensive or not.

As James Wade of Phurix Labs points out today, Google has essentially created a ‘profanity API’ that any developer can use in his or her own apps.

Entering the URL http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=xxx (changing the text after the ‘?=’ to whatever word you want to check) you can find out whether a word is profane in Google’s eyes or not, getting the response ‘True’ or ‘False’.

Not caught up with UK spelling yet:

http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=arsehole

;)

(Source: thenextweb.com)

too darn hot

maybe Col was onto something