You might remember that I made a passing reference to the fact that Microsoft’s Bing search engine makes it real easy to find porn. Microsoft has now decided that it porn needs its own “red light district.” How does this work? Here’s a brief description from the Bing Community Blog:
First, potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be. This makes it much easier for filtering software to block unwanted content if SafeSearch has been turned off.
In addition, we will begin returning source url information in the query string for images and video content so that companies who already use this method of filtering will be able to catch explicit content on Bing along with everything else they are already blocking for their customers.
I’ll give Microsoft points for this. They’ve come up with a solution that allows companies and schools to filter X rated content easily, without affecting those who don’t care or are lonely and horny. That’s the sort of balance that’s needed in the world. We need more of that.
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Bing Serves Porn From Its Own Domain To Protect You
You might remember that I made a passing reference to the fact that Microsoft’s Bing search engine makes it real easy to find porn. Microsoft has now decided that it porn needs its own “red light district.” How does this work? Here’s a brief description from the Bing Community Blog:
First, potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be. This makes it much easier for filtering software to block unwanted content if SafeSearch has been turned off.
In addition, we will begin returning source url information in the query string for images and video content so that companies who already use this method of filtering will be able to catch explicit content on Bing along with everything else they are already blocking for their customers.
I’ll give Microsoft points for this. They’ve come up with a solution that allows companies and schools to filter X rated content easily, without affecting those who don’t care or are lonely and horny. That’s the sort of balance that’s needed in the world. We need more of that.
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