Google has to maintain the status of a common carrier (somewhat).
If that filter the Alert team came up with triggers a lot of false positives, that would be hurting their business since legitimate websites could get excluded from search results (imagine the backlash).
Now I'm not defending them; I actually think they aren't doing it because they don't know how to handle the situation (profits loss versus angry users).
But I'm also pretty sure Mr. Obie Fernandez wouldn't like to be dropped off the face of the Internet just because it has ties to Jacksonville (yeah, cheap shot done on purpose: we know how filtering works and how hard to get right it is).
If that filter the Alert team came up with triggers a lot of false positives, that would be hurting their business since legitimate websites could get excluded from search results (imagine the backlash).
Now I'm not defending them; I actually think they aren't doing it because they don't know how to handle the situation (profits loss versus angry users).
But I'm also pretty sure Mr. Obie Fernandez wouldn't like to be dropped off the face of the Internet just because it has ties to Jacksonville (yeah, cheap shot done on purpose: we know how filtering works and how hard to get right it is).