Microsoft has already updated its new search engine, Bing, to halt complaints from network administrators about the video clip preview feature. Built into the search engine to give it the edge over its competitors, the feature allows users to search for videos, hovering over the video to get a small preview of what the user can expect to see.This has upset a lot of network administrators who want to block sexual content from being watched in the work place. Bing has been updated with stricter filter options that disable video previews, but as a temporary fix, Microsoft has released a string of code for administrators to enforce the strictest search settings.
Bing is Microsoft's latest search engine which has some fairly amusing and catchy adverts associated with it. The search site came under fire earlier this week, being branded as a "porn portal" by some for how easy it is to acquire pornographic video. Microsoft also released some BingTones for use as mobile ringtones today.
A finalized update will be released shortly as Microsoft tackles the issue, but as for now the end user will not be able to search key words related to sexual content such as "porn", prompting the user with the warning "The search [porn] may return explicit adult content. To view these videos, turn off safe search."
As for workplaces being able to enforce it...well why not?
As for workplaces being able to enforce it...well why not?
They have a "temporary word around" for the porn filter, for network administrators, which enforces the strictest settings on every search.
The full update will be implemented soon, once Microsoft figures out a good solution.
I don't think they were trying to hide the porn. They don't want to get into any legal disputes.
hehe, still a good thing if they want at least SOME market share!!
Sadly there are a lot that do it and they act surprised when they get busted. I'll never forget one guy handing his crashed machine to us and asking us to recover data in early 2002 and we discovered a couple hundred MB of videos and pics. Security made a note of it and gave him a free pass, the SECOND time he got busted he got canned.
Because MS can't afford to have Bing.com blacklisted in the Corporate world. At my work (75,000+ machines) they block game sites and all sorts of other things I consider trivial. Blocking a site offering up porn is something they will not hesitate doing.
Do you work for a big shop (bank)? I worked for a big one that came crashing down but their IT Security was tight like a bagel. You couldn't do anything they didn't want you to do.
Last edited by AnandVVN on 05 Jun 2009 - 06:34
Only morons get porn from a search engine.
Repeat after me, Shareaza (From sourgeforce not shareaza.com) or Utorrent.
Nuff said.
also there is the wonders of the xxxtube sites anyway....
also there is the wonders of the xxxtube sites anyway....
Shareaza is still going strong. The domain they had been using was bought by a company that released their malware infested crap under Shareaza's name and logo. The real Shareaza moved develpment, thier web site and forum to sourceforge.net, where it resides today.
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