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Philippines: Taking back the “Sexy Filipina” Search Keyword

Thursday, June 28th, 2007 @ 18:06 UTC

by Preetam Rai

Countries:: Philippines
Topics:: Gender, Internet & Telecoms

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Filipinas: Cambiar “Sexy Filipina” como Palabra clave de búsqueda...

Noemi is not happy with the internet search result for the word Filipina. The blogger is urging fellow bloggers from Philippines to collectively beat the porn and smut marketers by actively using the keyword on their blogs and linking them to non-porn sites

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noemi

Thanks for spreading the campaign. It’s not to totally put down these sites. We want equal opportunity to be placed in the “Filipina” search engine results.

# 2007-06-30 at 5:55 am

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# 2007-06-30 at 5:56 am
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# 2007-06-30 at 17:43 pm
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# 2007-06-30 at 19:27 pm
geo marshall

Why in the world would any female (pinay or not) object to being called sexy? I would imagine it is one of the most ultimate of compliments!

# 2007-07-1 at 0:56 am

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Manila Mom

Yes, geo marshall, that’s so true. Many of us, Filipinas, want to be called sexy but we want the word sexy to encompass the totality of the person and not just the physical, as is often referred to – and most certainly not what the smut purveyors want to portray.

Thanks, global voices online, for featuring this. This post is now number 2 on search results for sexy filipina.

# 2007-07-1 at 4:39 am

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# 2007-07-2 at 12:58 pm
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# 2007-07-31 at 2:31 am
SexyMom

thanks for being with us in our Campaign. albeit slowly, we hope to fully reclaim the clean image of the Filipina!

# 2007-07-31 at 2:34 am

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# 2007-08-2 at 1:28 am

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