Comments on: Webmaster Tip: Verify Your Site’s Websense Category

By: light487

light487 — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:54:15 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a whirl the next time I an encounter a “Sex” site that has been incorrectly categorised. I spoke to IT about this issue and they said that Websense uses under paid workers (ie. College students) to sift through the websites and categorise them. Of course there are going to be a lot of mis categorised sites.. it’s also a very subjective thing as well… what one person considers offensive, another won’t.. especially in a global (ie. different cultures etc) sense.

Anyway, again thanks for the tip.. I’ll give it a try.

By: Gagsy

Gagsy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:51:40 +0000

Hi,
Is there any website which provides me an option to check the category in which a web site falls.
(In other words, I would like to check the website before hitting the return key in my browser, so that its not recorded).

By: bandfan79

bandfan79 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:06:31 +0000

I built this small site for my local high school and they can’t even look at it because Websense blocked it as “sex”. I called Websense and they told me that I needed someone from the school to call them and see how their configuration was set up. What kind of crap is this?! I’ve sent an e-mail to the suggest@websense.com, but is there no way to categorize the site myself? I work at a military base and it is blocked here to; categorization:”none”

Thank you for your help.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:49:13 +0000

@brian, yeah they changed the login

By: brian

brian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:08:36 +0000

Unless I missed something you need a product key to get a login.

By: mark woeppel

mark woeppel — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:26:01 +0000

My air cargo reverse auction site was blocked, too. Mistakenly classified as malicious. Thanks for posting this! Very irritating and that a 3rd party can interfere with your business.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:43:11 +0000

i hate websense…

(disclosure…forced to admin it for one of your 50 states)…

i have to let ebay open and yahoo’s fantasy sports…but yet, when i need drivers for computers, it is blocked

websense, biggest P.O.S. version of a white/black list.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:53:38 +0000

Micah: I do have a few sites that aren’t ranked, but rather than trying to categorize them now, I’ll just let them get classified by Websense.

It’s your call with your own site though as you might want to head off any incorrect categorization now rather than constantly check back.

By: fiscal musings

fiscal musings — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:46:06 +0000

Interesting information and good to hear that you were able to get the problem resolved.

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:36:26 +0000

Well I’m not actually classified at all. I wonder if that’s good or bad.