WWW- A problem with Google’s SafeSearch feature resulted in Google Base drowning in porn earlier in this week. Google claim that the technical hitch has been fixed, and things are now back to normal.

Google Base is a new service designed to rival other offerings such as CraigsList and Ebay. It allows users to post up articles, photos, classified ads, rooms for rent, or anything else. It seems like porn marketers are using it to post up plenty ot pointers to their pay-sites, in the hope of catching interested early adopters of Google Base into spending some coins with them.

Normally, Google’s SafeSearch filters out adult-oriented results (a feature which works across all the rest of Google, such as Images, as well as Base). However, it appears like a gremlin in the works b0rked SafeSearch for the night, resulting in a deluge of adult content.