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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?
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow. Thanks for making me feel really old and really dirty all at the same time. 1986, fuck...
Clearly Microsoft objects to XF86's new license as being restrictive to the growth of Free Software worldwide!
Yes the Eye Of Bill is watching. I can sense it's Evil gaze.
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?
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...
Here's what you need - Lesbian Linux.
Provides the porn-get package manager to provide all your porn needs.
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!!!
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"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
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?
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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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