http://l7world.com/2010/04/google-spons ... raphy.html
I visit a number of websites to read manga online with mangafox being one of my main ones, however due to the above article the company behind manga fox immediately reacted in a knee jerk fashion and shut down every single manga that was rated mature, adult or had the following tags: lolicon, shotacon, yaoi, yuri, loli, shota, harem, etc and some other genres. Naturally none of the series were actually reviewed to see if they had any offensive material in them, if they had any of the above words in their description or search tag they were auto banned. Even series like kaicho wa maid sama were knocked off. It is a bit understandable though, as from what i read google told them to remove any series that might be considered child porn or pretty much anything else that might be offensive to your average american.
I really hope this is an isolated case cause honestly, I would say a large number of perfectly decent series have at least one of the descriptors above (fruits basket is a harem series one or two yaoi characters in it lol). not to mention the fact that mature/adult series were pretty much universally shut down. Just pisses me off that just one random news article can set off a chain reaction that ends up shutting down a lot of very good series. Let's just hope it doesn’t spread too far out to other major manga databases. however, the fact that the article mentions a number of websites by name and web address probably means google will be cracking down on them and others.





