Whatever happened to Pornolize.com?

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It's been down for months and I can't find any news on it. Many a dull Friday afternoon was passed by running sites through it...can anyone shed any light?

Was it subject to litigation on account of mis-use of people's websites or something?

How hard would it be to replicate something like it, but with different styles of rude language?
 
It'd be pretty straightforward. IIRC all it was was a screenscraper which changed the content?

If so the hard bit would be writing the dictionaries to do the translations :)
 
Ok, so now to

- Find out why it bombed.
- Find out if the idea was protected (surely not?).
- Think of a name.
- Learn one or more programming languages :p.
 
The original pornolize.com is back up. It didn't bomb, I think it was shut down due to abuse. You will find a group, and one of the original creators on Facebook, if you wish to find out more about the history of the site.

A few months ago, while pornolize.com was down, I started work on my own site (http://perversify.net/) which does essentially the same thing the original pornolize.com did, but is a bit more subtle in the output. There is also the Rinkworks Dialectizer (http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/), which simply does a search and replace (very well though).

Although I still have work to do in refining the handling of words which are both nouns and other types, I don't think the tricky part is the dictionary work or language parsing, but the HTML parsing. I expected language parsing to need a lot of ongoing work, so the code was designed to facilitate looking forward and rewinding the stream.

My language of choice was C, chosen for speed and in-memory data storage efficiency, but any language should do. Now that it's done, I can see CPU usage is so low as to be insignificant on the host. Memory usage is high because the database is memory resident. I looked in to file-backed access to the dictionaries, but it was significantly slower, and I expect unworkable in a hosted environment with a SAN back-end.
 
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