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MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86?
Peacefire writes "Thomas Shaddack spotted this on http://www.root.cz/ (in Czech) -- if you go to http://search.msn.com/ and
search for 'XFree86', it tells you that you've 'entered a search term that is likely to return adult content', and directs you to the porn search engine NightSurf.com, which lists a bunch of porn sites that ostensibly match the term 'XFree86'. If you search for 'XFree86' on Google, however, it's clear that the top matching terms returned by a normal search, are XFree86 sites, are not a bunch of porn sites. MSN is apparently blocking the specific term 'XFree86' and not just filtering on something stupid like the 'X' or the 'Free', since you can search for 'XFree85' and 'XFree87' with no problem. And search terms like 'Linux', 'AOL' and 'Macintosh' are allowed, so at least MSN hasn't simply blacklisted all competitors' keywords as 'porn', but why would they be blocking 'XFree86'?"
Something has gotta be wrong with that.
Not to beat the dead horse, but how many people using MSN as a search engine would know a thing about XFree86?
Maybe they meant to ban XFree69, but just made a typo.
1. Linux with Xfree86
2. ???
3. porn
I mean come on, can't you see that?
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Maybe they don't like the new license and are blocking it for our own good?
Has anyone tried variants on "X Box"?
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It sure it convenient with a graphical user interface but this is TOO MUCH.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
MSFT is going to block all websites containing the letter "X", which will be all of their competition.
I.e. Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, hot XXX grits, etc.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
The "Free" part is probably what scares them.
"I have an alternative? And it's what?"
Don't tell me I'm the only one who asks my wife if she wants to XFree86 tonight?
You know what?
"how many people using MSN as a search engine would know a thing about XFree86?"
Apparently none, given the MSN results.
Perhaps they are doing soundex/metaphone type matching on the words to see if they are sex-related. Perhaps "xfree86" sounds like something you might find on a porn site.
Either than or it's X FREE 86 where 86 is some position that involves finding a woman with two heads.
John.
No No No... If it is free then it is called art. If you have to pay for it then it is Pr0n.
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Blocking web pages whose titles include a word starting with X would block the Super Bowl, which for the last few decades has used the letter "X" in the name of each event as part of the Roman serial number.
Little kid told me that an "XXX" movie means you have to be thirty years old to get in.
perhaps a better question to ask is: Who the hell is using search.msn.com instead of google?
Finally a viable competitor to Google. I have been looking for XFree86 adult content for quite some time. Google could just never bring up what I needed.
Thanks MSN!
Since it's about to get Slashdotted... ...I suggest we nominate them for the only site to be slashdotted without being linked from Slashdot.
Feel sorry for the residents of this town then. It just kind of stands out at you, doesn't it.
Get your own free personal location tracker
Darn, I just did a search for slashdot on MSN and it seems MSN wouldnt let me because it was likely to bring up a very violent anti MS website.
Ahem. Well, I challenge you to come up with a better theory then.
Let's break it down ... X, as in XXX (porn), free, as in beer, and 86, as in people who have been 86'ed. I certainly wouldn't want my children seeing that :-o
(Score:-1, Wrong)
Your friend is offensive. Especially when he preforms his "Flames of Flatuence" routine. He showed it to my grandmother which in turn burned her eyebrows clean off her face. As far as I'm concerned, MSN is doing its job.
Well, if we let them continue to provide misleading information, and only the vast majority of Internet users use it, we might end up with a situation where Americans are really bad spellers, who can't tell when they should use (for example;) "their" instead of "there" or "you're" instead of "your."
And the irony is that their motto is "more useful everyday." I mean, that's obviously true if one day they're as useful as a stab wound in the kidney, and the next day they're as useful as a heat lamp to a burn victim, but wake up here, people. It's all an obvious attempt to associate porn and other "morally wrong" materials with the open source movement.
*whispers* You searched for XFree89, this topic is about XFree86.
To be honest as far as I know the only difference between the two is XFree3 but then I'm no professional geek.
This is Slashdot... does fantasising count? ;p
And they aren't even competition (well, ostensibly they are, but Microsoft's a UNIX licensee - does that mean they got all of these threatening letters, too?).
I take it you haven't heard of the technique known as the '86'? That's like a 69, but the female partner's overweight.
(As a lady of mature years, these days my husband and I mostly prefer the '96'. Zzzzz...)
It is a woman's prerogative to change other people's minds.
Wow. Thanks for making me feel really old and really dirty all at the same time. 1986, fuck...
Holy shit! It works here, too!
That's because bondage isn't always sexual.
Doesn't Microsoft want all of us to be in bondage to them? Straining against the yoke of software assurance? Restrained by the EULA? Struggling to close vulnerable ports?
Can't expect anything if you don't pay for it, eh? Hell, sometimes people ask me for directions when I'm out walking my dog, and I'll send them in the totally wrong direction! Just for the hell of it! Sure, some of them look pretty desperate to get wherever they're going, but they're not paying me or anything, so it's not like it's wrong to lie to them.
Reminds me of the Benny Hill skit where he's putting up a sign for a doctor, and mistakenly splits it as:
DR. JOHNSON
THE
RAPIST
Get it? For the thick amongst us: THERAPIST = THE+RAPIST
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.
Clearly Microsoft objects to XF86's new license as being restrictive to the growth of Free Software worldwide!
Turns up a result, and doesn't trigger the porn filter. Add "babes fuck breast" if you like.
Does that include ActiveX, ASPX, DirectX, or XBox?
Yes the Eye Of Bill is watching. I can sense it's Evil gaze.
Well thats funny a search for linux on msn brings up only 414 results, I WONDER why? http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=Linux&FORM=SM CRT
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
Don't be so closed minded. They could easily be both evil and stupid.
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I did a search for "teen shemales fisting watersports anal toys"[msn.com], and got www.xfree86.org as a result...
Where would they get that idea?
They've portscanned all you porn-downloading turkeys, and noticed that
1) you have XFree86.
2) you only ever use it to look at porn.
And by the way, isn't there a porn-centric linux distribution yet, with tools for downloading huge tracts of porn from usenet etc?
I got the adult content warning and tried:
xfree86 bullshit its adult content...
for a laugh, which for some reason bought back a bucketload of Slashdot stuff (!?). Conspiracy against xfree86? No, it's just a really bad search engine.
hahah .. you can happily search for 'fucktoy' under msn.com .. just not 'xfree86'
ONLY savvy people run XFree86. Perhaps you are using a previously unknown (ie made up) definition of "savvy".
Games Workshop Petition
Ah. But if you search for XFree86 MS idiots!!! you bypass their pr0n warning and get a slew of links to Slashdot.
How not-so-strange...
Next week MS will put another easter egg in their search engine to keep Slashdotters busy for hours while MS programmers hammer out Longhorn and Sheephorn and Horned-owl and take over the WORLD!!!
Flames ... no. Dollar bills is more like it.
I just submitted it with IE. Dont have a heart attack though, Im typing this in Mozilla right now. Right after Im done Ill restart my computer and go back to Mepis.
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No idea what the hell that is, but I think I'm going to send my kids there next summer.
Do you have ESP?
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Yeah, you know, that uppercase eight can be a tricky one. :)
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The Internet couldn't tell a good bit from a bad bit if it bit it on its naughty bits.
what the heck? that first MSN result has a broken link! ;)
Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
MSN search for "goatse guy", raw results:
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Goatse
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I'm looking for an explanation as to why a search for "XFree86 anal sex" has Slashdot as 10 of the top 11 hits.
The MSN search isn't biased against Linux at all!
For proof, just go here and read what it says in the title.
For the lazy: "MSN Seach: linux -- More Useful Everyday"
i believe the best demonstration is saerching for 'porn' and then 'porn porn'
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
Obviously the MS programmer(s/oids) is(are/are) ANDing the evil bit flags instead of ORing them. They did check the for evil bit, didn't they?!
Why do I get the feeling that if you manually overrode the "maxlength=150" and set them a nice custom GET with "bork" 17000 times on the MSN search line, somewhere in Redmond a server will go down?
--
For a little recursive humor, trying searching "XFree86 adult" on MSN.
I was standing up for the greater honor of Slashdot, about which you were equally insulting.
This is Slashdot. I get it out of my system here so I can be a lovable cheerful teddy bear in real life. For all you know, we work together, so you ought to be thankful. Heck, maybe I'm your mom. Or even you, during those mysterious blackouts.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Your post.
And I imagine THIS post will be showing up shortly. Or maybe I will be first cos I have mentioned MSN (twice).
Well, presumably if you type it twice, then you're sure you want it and don't need a warning.
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I'm afraid the awful truth has finally gone out. The truth is that XFree86 users are mostly relatively wealthy single male nerds, so they are an excellent market for pr0n. Hence, MSN sold the search results for XFree86 to pr0nographers (for no less than about $1 billion).
It's a win-win-win situation, for MSN which pleases its users, for pr0nographers who have direct access to their prime customers, for nerds which can get rid of their hormonal overflow directly on pr0n sites, rather than indirectly fighting frustatively with the millions options of XFree86, not to mention the modules, the NVidia binary kernel modules, etc...
...what can be adequately explained by Microsoft's search engine being shit.