At Hello.com, a Web site owned and operated by Google, porn helped catch an alleged predator in South Carolina. This isn't another mix-up about googleporn.com, one of more than 9,000 domains owned by Google, Inc.
Police nabbed the alleged child pornographer who sent more than 500 pornographic images and porn videos to a cop posing as a 13 year old boy.
Hello.com, a Google-Picasa social site that allows instant upload and transmission of pictures and video was the platform used by the suspect, high school teacher Timothy Lynn Brumit, 47, of Aiken, S.C. Amanda Stewart of Potomac News first reported the Google porn story on Saturday.
As Google scales social search as the "future of search" platform, its problems with porn and illegal activities - online and offline - have multiplied.
In 2005, police in Brazil arrested a gang of drug dealers who were using Google's Orkut social networking site to sell ecstasy and marijuana. Later the following year, Brazilian prosecutors threatened to shut down Orkut unless Google cooperated with police investigating child porn on the social search site.
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