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ST. PETERSBURG - A Web site featuring “Bra Babes” was among results that people were given when using Google to search for the city’s public library.
The awkward search return, which has been fixed by Google, came about after an adult Web site company bought the library’s old Internet address and made it the home of “1000’s of sexy women and teens wearing bras and exposing all.”
The library has been using its current address - www .splibraries.org - for three years. The library stopped paying for the old domain name in July.
“We can’t just go out and buy all of them,” Muslim Gadiwalla, a city spokesman, told the St. Petersburg Times.
The city learned the fate of its old Web address - and its prominent profile on Google - when they were contacted by a reporter.
The situation is not unusual. One of Gov. Jeb Bush’s Web sites was snatched up by an adult content provider in 2002.
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