When Neowin reported last week about Bing allowing users to watch porn videos and browse pornographic material using its search, businesses, schools and other large corporations complained that Bing maybe a gateway to free porn. Bing was blocked by some companies to prevent porn surfing during work hours, where Microsoft instantly became to form a solution to the problem. Fox News was one of the first to come forward with criticisms of Bing, claiming that it provided "a cornucopia of pornography" and that it was easy to transform "the search engine into [your] very own pornographic Web site." Microsoft has now come up with a solution to fix that problem by filtering all explicit material through a new URL, explicit.bing.net, which is invisible to the end user. The update will allow businesses, schools and others to easily filter this address and block all explicit material even if SafeSearch has been turned off, without limiting access to Bing completely.
Much to the disappointment of some, attempting to directly visit the http://explicit.bing.net address with a browser will redirect you to the regular bing.com, and not to a dedicated Microsoft porn site.
Bing will also start to return source URL information in the query string for both images and videos, so businesses will be able to catch explicit material, in case Bing does not filter a web site the company does.
Should have been bada.bing.net
Should have been
bada.bing.net
It's just a subdomain. If you buy bing.com or bing.net then everything that ends on .bing.com or .bing.net is yours.
Of course it is, it's either just a cname for one of their servers or another forward lookup zone within the bing.com dns namespace.
needs to be done.
Bing is trying to be cool, this would help
Well it's useless then!
Has anybody made the switch from thewellknownsearchengine? I for one haven't.
Has anybody made the switch from thewellknownsearchengine? I for one haven't.
I've made the switch
I sometimes type "google.com", by accident, but then I just change it to "bing.com"
Has anybody made the switch from thewellknownsearchengine? I for one haven't.
Not me and have no intention to. I don't trust any other search engine but Google but that's about all of the relationship between me and Google except for the fact that I use Chrome even though I have encountered a few rendering issues here and there.
Same. I've got firefox set up to quick-search both, but it's hard to break habits (which is why Google will be so hard to beat)
Has anybody made the switch from thewellknownsearchengine? I for one haven't.
Bing is easy on the eyes but doesn't search better than google in any area. The local news is rather sparse. The regular search doesn't seem to have dealt with the problem of relevance to the query.
Oh and I hear the porn search is the best. lol.
Baha!
As for consolidating explicit Bing content to a new address, this is brilliant and should please a lot of people who complained!
But hey, why else did they put "InPrivate Browsing" into IE8? XD
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