Solutions
ISP Parental Controls: Case Studies
Customer Background
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 World properties and is available in 13 languages.
Yahoo! has shown a continuing commitment to providing a family-friendly experience on the web as evidenced by its Yahooligans! Service. Yahoo! continues its record of this commitment through the deployment of parental controls in its SBC Yahoo! DSL and Dial services that include RuleSpace's Online Lookup Service. As a company committed to providing the best Web experience possible to its users, Yahoo! performed a review and analysis of the available web filtering technologies, and selected RuleSpace as the service best able to provide the accuracy, scalability, and world-wide coverage necessary for its customers.
"We are pleased to be working with RuleSpace, utilizing their technology to provide easy-to-use parental controls in both SBC Yahoo! DSL and Dial services," said Thaddeus White, senior director of access production, Yahoo, Inc. "RuleSpace is providing flexible, accurate filtering technology to Yahoo! allowing us to provide one of the industry's most comprehensive parental controls package. Our product enables parents to choose the content their children view online and customize settings for each child. In addition to the filtering technology from RuleSpace, parents can also limit surfing to the more than 40,000 hand-picked kid-friendly Websites listed in Yahooligans!, Yahoo!'s award-winning family Web destination."
Powering the Solution
With RuleSpace's Online Look-up Service (OLS) enabling Yahoo! parental controls, every URL requested by an enabled subscriber is analyzed for inappropriate content against RuleSpace's database. RuleSpace's database which contains 60 million URLs overall, resulting from analysis of over 1 billion Web pages performed every 60 days. Yahoo!'s offering allows parents to set various levels of access control, and depending on the access level set by the parent, access is blocked if RuleSpace OLS indicates the URL has been found to contain inappropriate content. If the URL is not in the RuleSpace list, the Web site will be analyzed.
Customer Background
BT is a UK wide communications solutions provider with a global reach in the business market. BT Group is one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services. Its principal activities include local, national and international telecommunications services, higher-value broadband and internet products and services, and IT solutions. In the UK, BT serves over 20 million business and residential customers with more than 29 million exchange lines, as well as providing network services to other licensed operators.
Powering the Solution
BT deploys one of the industry's most comprehensive parental controls packages, powered by RuleSpace technology. Its product enables parents to choose the content their children view online and customize settings for each child.
Powered Search: Case Studies
Customer Background
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 World properties and is available in 13 languages.
"Yahoo Web Search has immense scalability and accuracy needs which RuleSpace meets admirably. RuleSpace is integrated into our web site analysis pipeline as we build the search index and an important element of the Yahoo effort to provide its users with the most valuable and trusted search experience on the internet." Priyank Garg, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo Web Search
Powering the Solution
Yahoo also uses filtering and web content recognition technology from RuleSpace to screen offensive material, primarily pornography and hate speech, from its highly popular web search which helps provide an effective family-friendly search experience. Using RuleSpace's Services to provide automated categorization helps ensure that Yahoo Web Search results most closely match the user's preferences and search query. Screening is performed when web sites are found and added to the Yahoo Web Search system, and the entire web search index is re-screened periodically to ensure that offensive content is accurately labeled and excluded from the filtered search results.
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