Blocked Pages by Yahoo Category - Grouping by Level 1
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[ Group by Yahoo Category Level: 1, 2, 3, 4 ]

This table reports the number of pages found to be blocked in each Yahoo category and subcategory. For each category and sub-category, the second column gives the number of specific web pages found to be blocked, while the third column reports the number of pages blocked in that category as a proportion of the number of pages tested from that category. Small-font text below each category listing gives up to five specific pages found to be blocked (ordered by descending number of inbound links).

CategoryNumber of pages blockedProportion of tested pages blocked
Regional3961.3%
www.systransoft.com, www.ciudadfutura.com, www.seznam.cz, www.mondadori.com, www.bahai.org, and 391 additional URLs
Society and Culture3082.8%
magazines.ivillage.com/townandcountry, cards.webshots.com, www.theonion.com, crimelibrary.com, www.crimelibrary.com, and 303 additional URLs
Entertainment1736.7%
www.theonion.com, www.ciudadfutura.com, www.rollingstone.com, www.playboy.com, www.nyrock.com, and 168 additional URLs
Business and Economy1402.6%
www.erowid.org, www.anonymizer.com, www.magazinecity.net, www.playboy.com, webalias.com, and 135 additional URLs
Arts812.7%
crimelibrary.com, www.crimelibrary.com, www.erowid.org, www.mondadori.com, www.playboy.com, and 76 additional URLs
Health555.2%
www.mapinc.org, www.erowid.org, www.druglibrary.org, www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ library/graphs/cvmarjna.htm, www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ Library/studies/cu/CU35.html, and 50 additional URLs
Recreation494.2%
www.theonion.com, www.playboy.com, webalias.com, www.io.com, www.mindspring.com, and 44 additional URLs
News and Media420.7%
www.playboy.com, webalias.com, www.mindspring.com, www.megastar.co.uk, www.euronet.nl, and 37 additional URLs
Science362.0%
www.theonion.com, religioustolerance.org, www.religioustolerance.org, www.mindspring.com, www.ifrance.com, and 31 additional URLs
Government331.0%
www.theonion.com, crimelibrary.com, www.crimelibrary.com, www.druglibrary.org, www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ library/graphs/cvmarjna.htm, and 28 additional URLs
Computers and Internet304.8%
www.profusion.com, art.net, www.cruel.com, www.euronet.nl, www.flash.net, and 25 additional URLs
Social Science234.1%
www.erowid.org, www.sexuality.org, www.asahi-net.or.jp, www.euronet.nl, nepenthes.lycaeum.org, and 18 additional URLs
Reference90.9%
www.voycabulary.com, www.BmeWorld.com, www.BmeWorld.com/gailcat/index.html, www.xs4all.nl/~in/Poet/VocAll.htm, www.fashionquote.com, and 4 additional URLs
Education60.1%
religioustolerance.org, www.religioustolerance.org, www.ivillage.com, www.xs4all.nl, www.pacificnet.net, and 1 additional URLs

 

For each blocked URL, Yahoo categories were obtained by entering the blocked URL into Yahoo's ordinary search interface. When a blocked URL is the root page of a domain, i.e. http://www.domainname.com without a further directory path or filename, the Yahoo search system may in some instances return categories that pertain to other pages within the blocked domain. If a block takes place at the level only of a root page, but does not extend to pages deeper in the domain's directory tree, erroneous reporting of Yahoo categories may result. However, in the authors' testing, blocks of the affected servers (namely, those servers providing personal home pages) covered all pages on a given server, rendering this concern moot.