BOSTON, Mass.—New adult-oriented search engine Boodigo is calling on the panoply of businesses and individuals serving the adult entertainment industry online to submit their website URLs to the search engine, and in doing so help it help them.
The problem, according to BoodiGo co-founder Colin Rowntree, is exemplified by the fundamental contradiction he sees when he looks out over the horizon of the online adult entertainment industry. On the one hand, he argues in a statement issued today, the public appears to be more accepting of pornography than ever before; but on the other, many mainstream web outlets seem to be going out of their way to marginalize online porn, censor links to it from their platforms, or otherwise hold online porn at arm’s length.
"We’re seeing more and more proactive removal of explicit materials from social media platforms, even if the material isn’t visible directly on the platform itself," he adds. "You can be a porn star and be on Facebook, sure; but effectively, you can only be a porn star on Facebook if you don’t really discuss the fact that you’re a porn star.”
Rowntree argues that, in light of what he calls the "less ‘porn-tolerant’ atmosphere growing among mainstream traditional and social media outlets," it is all the more important for adult websites and companies to submit their URLs and domains to BoodiGo, where, he says, they will be given proper emphasis.
“In some ways, the initial focus on BoodiGo has been on the things we don’t want people finding in our search responses,” Rowntree says, referring to BoodiGo’s efforts to block and redirect searches commonly used to find child porn, pirated content and other illicit material. “But as an adult search engine, naturally our goal is to help people find what they’re looking for from the world of adult entertainment, and people can really help us help them, and help the consumer, by proactively submitting their URLs to us.
“We want to hear from adult blogs, toy stores, people with adult tumblrs, porn star home pages, porn review sites, video-on-demand sites, authors and publishers of erotic ebooks, adult twitter feeds, adult tradeshows, adult industry media outlets – you name it,” he continued. “Naturally, our anti-piracy policy and other content policies will apply, but if it’s legal and legitimate porn, it has a home – and an ally – in BoodiGo.com.”
To use the BoodiGo "add URL" tool, go here and follow the instructions.
