Comments on: Bing Bans Porn Query for India

By: frylock

frylock — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:10:46 +0000

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?’

By: Anupama Das

Anupama Das — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:45:39 +0000

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!

By: boomerang

boomerang — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:55:05 +0000

I guess bcos they dont want the websites(of the search results) to complain to MS, of bandwidth usage bcos of easy streaming.

By: Anuj Rathi

Anuj Rathi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:06 +0000

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.