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Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google

Posted by timothy on from the can-neither-confirm-nor-deny dept.

mike.rimov writes "I saw that part of the brand new Windows Live package is the Family Safety Filter, so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to 'basic filtering' (their lowest level), and went to Google ... oops, it blocks Google! So I logged into the settings and added Google as an exception. Google still wouldn't come up. Just in case, I turned off the family filter: voila, Google. As we all know, 'Don't be evil' is not part of Microsoft's motto! Oh yeah — and with the filter on, Microsoft's own search engine, live.com comes up." Anomaly?

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  1. google isn't all that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    google : two connected kids
    get their rich banker friends
    to throw more money than imaginable
    to buy up other people's businesses.

    Where did all the money come from?

    Any endevour like that which produces
    instant billionaires
    seems questionable to me.

  2. Re:No, sir! *This* is perfectly valid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cool story, bro

  3. Re:First Post! by krewemaynard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    RON PAUL

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    I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
  4. I think I know what the problem is: by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    PEBKAC

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    There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
  5. Typical Microsloth by Conrad+Mazian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Typical. Typical Microsloth. And the company wonders why their reputation is worse than Jack the Ripper's.