Bing Bans Porn Query for India
It seems Bing team has been caught in a defensive mode ever since the porn videos bug was found (one could easily view the porn videos from search engine without going to the site).
Bing has banned porn query for India as well as Middle East nations, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
Search for sex or porn and you will get a screen that asks you to change the search terms:
“THE SEARCH PORN MAY RETURN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONTENT.To get results, change your search terms.”
This is actually quite funny because other search engines do allow searching for such terms – moreover there is no legal ban on these terms.
Of course, one can change the country settings and query for all the terms – but a country specific blanket ban doesn’t make much sense.
What’s your opinion
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It’s a stupid implementation. Append the banned keyword with *any* unbanned keyword and it works
So while ’sex’ might not return a result, ’sex shots’ or ’sexy shots’ will.
Maybe they really want users to search for anything, and fool governments into thinking that they have their moral police intact.
I guess bcos they dont want the websites(of the search results) to complain to MS, of bandwidth usage bcos of easy streaming.
if other search engines do allow does approve of doing right. I can safely allow bing for my kids and block other search engines now.
yo bingo!
The job of a search engine is to give results according to the user input keyword, not dictating what results should the user see on his screen. Blocking search of ‘porn’ or ’sex’ at search engine level is nonsense, it completely destroys what ‘the search engine’ stands for.
It is the user who should be in control not the website or any other authority trying to steer their users to moral zones.
Besides, there are numerous porn filters available for enterprise use and for personal parenting. Not all solutions are paid, some are free too.
Today its just ’sex’ or ‘porn’ but this practice is condemning as this is killing net-neutrality.
btw, ’sex’ has multiple meanings in English including gender, ‘how can u ban such an everyday used word from seeping into your search results?’