Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google

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?

Comments

All Search is defacto Spyware

[Philip K Dickhead]

Block it all. Scrub through proxies. Obfuscate queries. Hire a cookie monster.

Maybe they should rename LiveSearch to Moogle

[tjstork]

And use all the exact same lettering and look that Google has. People look at LiveSearch and instinctively recoil in the horror. It would be helpful if LiveSearch did something that Google did not do, which would be to not include google bombed link farms, or, for that matter, Experts Exchange, every time you do a tech search..

There's a lot of ways that Microsoft could leverage the desktop into search... and they are just being stupid. If you wanted a good search and wanted to go at Google, just bundle the search cost into the USA and have a search that does not bias its results based on advertisements in the way Google is perceived. Have it let users remove ALL advertisement from web sites....

Just being another Google, or Moogle, doesn't get you very far.

Re:Well...

[mounthood]

It probably wasn't intentional...

Sure, and Senator Ted Kennedy being added to the No-Fly list was also an accident.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17073-2004Aug19.html