Annoying Celebrity Internet Filter Needed

There is a need for a decent Internet content filter in light of the news being dominated by annoying celebrities such as Britney Spears. You cannot turn on a television of computer monitor without being bothered by their antics. A simple program could filter out many of these annoyances from the computer easily, though our lives are inundated with devices delivering up-to-the-minute news that cannot be as easily filtered.

There are two ways that content can be filtered: on the client side and on the server side. The server side would allow a group of people to all filter out the same annoyances by passing their web requests through to a central server that would deliver the filtered content. This takes more effort to implement, but is a solution that works.

Alternatively on the client side, one could install a browser extension to filter content if one existed (but they don’t for our purposes). Programs that can sit on your computer and filter web content have long been available, though it’s hard to find a free one. I ran across DansGuardian but I haven’t tried it as it doesn’t support Windows, but it does support *nix and Mac OSX. With a program like this you would hopefully be able to tell it to filter out all pages that mention “Britney Spears” and some other phrases. The most desirable program would be one which would use an algorithmic technique, such as using a Bayesian formula, to determine how badly the page is related to undesirable content. You could then block content based on how much of it is related to annoying celebrities, or whatever else you desire to remove.

Someone needs to come along and make it easy to do what I set out above. Then we just need search engines to make it easy to block content and we’re set. What do you think?