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I was playing around with the Wii's Internet Channel yesterday when I came to the conclusion that Opera might have missed the Wii's core user base when they were building the browser.   As anyone who has ever triede to use it with the Wii remote can attest, entering in a Web address isn't the easiest.   It likes to enter in characters twice, accurately aiming at keys from a distance is a bitch, and so one.

But that's not the only issue I've noticed.   Well, not really an issue, but an interesting little tidbit.   Type "por" into the address bar.   Go ahead, I'll wait.   ...   See that?!   Suggestion #4 is "porn," followed by "porno" and "pornography".   WTF?!   On a Wii?   Way to go, Opera.   No really, I mean that.   I like that Opera's embracing aspects that most companies want nothing to do with--search engines are used for looking up porn, but Yahoo! claims they don't want any of it in their index (way to let your PR dept. cater to moms instead of real users).

While I applaud Opera for this move, they clearly put it in the wrong application.   Wii's Internet Channel on a machine used primarily by 6 year olds and 60 year olds is probably not the best place for such a move.   What say you we start with the desktop browser and see how that goes?

Besides a live-action stripper in the opening credits of House of the Dead: Overkill, the Wii doesn't really do adult content.   A little bit of violence and what the aforementioned 6 year olds might consider horror, but not adult.