Too much love at the AKC

Bookbear reported blockages by WebSense, of the American Cancer Society and the American Kennel Club. BB's comments noted that the Cancer Society was probably blocked because of "breast" cancer. That may or may not be the case. I didn't investigate the reason.

However, her only comment about the AKC was, "why why WHY??????"

I did a little digging and I think I figured out the reason. You'll LOVE this!!!!

At first I wondered whether they used the proper name for a female dog somewhere on the page, but they didn't. I even checked the keyword and meta tags in the source code for the page.

Not finding anything objectionable on the web page, I decided to take a closer look at the source code. That's when it hit me...

The main theme of the page is "For the LOVE of the Purebred DOG". That in itself isn't significant. However, if you move your mouse over the links on the page you will see that much of the content of the site is contained in the subdirectory named "love". No go to the View menu of your browser and view Page Source. You will see that because so much content resides in the love directory, the code for the page uses the word "love" more than two dozen times. Here's a small part of that page's source code.

<A class="green" HREF="/love/museum/index.cfm">AKC Museum of the Dog</A><BR>

<A class="green" HREF="/love/links.cfm">Links</A><BR>

I guess WebSense considers all that Puppy Love at the American Kennel Club as pornography.

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