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Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently Microsoft is censoring search results for Bing in India and other countries. If you try to search for the term 'sex,' along with lots of variations, from India using Microsoft's new search engine, an error message is returned that says, 'the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.' There's no preference setting or toggle-on-or-off choice; you simply cannot search for the term 'sex' in India if you are using Bing. While a user still can change their country and try the non-Indian version of Bing, this seems like an unnecessary step and unnecessary censorship on the part of Microsoft. Apparently Google has no problem with Indians searching for the term 'sex.'"
... there is no sex in India's champagne room.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
there was pron.
Perhaps Microsoft doesn't want it's tech support searching for certain things while on the job?
Enjoy! -Excalibur
Someone cares about morals and propriety. The internet is no place for sex, especially Indian sex. If I was in charge no-one would be allowed to have sex or talk about sex or read about sex because sex is dirty and immoral and leads to crime, drug use, malfeasance, insouciance, laziness, ugliness, and general badness.
No shit, Sherlock.
Keep digging Watson.
Huh? They have names?
There is no discrimination of any kind, or snakes, in india! Therefore your argument is flawed. Tea?
Yay me!
Name of their first pet and name of the street where they live.
I'm Brownie de Lappe.
They must be related, usually their last name is "jpg".
Circumcision is child abuse.
Seeing other people have sex or talk about it is depressing. Depression is a serious illness.
There's how many people in India? Over a billion? Maybe it should just redirect to "Did you mean to search for Birth Control?"
Because lots of men don't wash their hands, and it grosses people out that they've doubled the chances of spreading swine flu.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Ummmm, because it's gay?
RTFM. With the emphasis on the F.
You think all the women wash their hands ? Be thankful the men's room is not littered with used tampons!
Something to think about when you hold your girls hand next time. You are welcome for the image.
A lot of Indian's seem to be posting here, sooo.... any single Indian females by any chance? :)
(Yup, I'm gonna be modded down to hell, I just know it, but you can't blame a guy for trying !)
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
Big Brother knows what's best for us.
Don't you mean "bing" brother?
A lots of those I can see how this could make some warped sense for religious/political reasons, but can someone clarify why Germany? What makes it special?
Have you seen German porn?! Blocking the term there is a public service!
...and now you're on every FBI, CIA, NSA, and Homeland Security watchlist all in one go. Congrats! Have fun in Guantanamo...
Ugh, I hate this place... Too bad we don't have that constitution thing to protect us anymore...
It's still used, it's part of what firefox so great.
Why the name "libpr0n"?
The main goal of the library is to render pornographic images in an efficient way. Plus, the name "imglib2" is boring.
My approach to things like this changed. I just don't care for shit like that. When it's hot, I like to run around barefoot. Even when shopping, etc.
And I make it look good. Fitting clothing style. Clean. And self-confident.
Now I get more girls talking to me *because* of it.
I think the trick is, to have a stronger reality. Of what is right and cool.
If you manage to drag others in your reality, you can do what you like.
So partially, it's people themselves, running around in fear, acting kinda ashamed, that makes other people think it's normal to treat them like this.
Same thing with learned wrong assumptions about yourself. Like people thinking they are stupid, therefore giving up earlier, and not even trying to achieve some goals.
I found it very healthy, to re-check all your most basic assumptions at most every 10 years. You will be surprised which one have absolutely no scientific base, but were very very deeply connected to every thought of yours.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Some days, I only make it through by imagining that some women don't wash their hands.
Giggity.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Our lips and our fingers/hands (and feet too)...
Boy, that takes me back. Used to be, back in my day, you'd hold a lovers feet while walking down the street. This posed the occasional complication. If they were still attached to her, do you do her the courtesy of chloroforming her before dragging her around, or do you simply use a club? What if they were severed? Do you have the feet bronzed or take them to a taxidermist?
Now you have all this hogwash about "lips" and "hands". Simpler days in my time, son, simpler days indeed.
"Hot blondes" is blocked. "Hot dirty blondes" is OK.
Go figure.
Also, "Two girls one cup", "goatsie", and "tubgirl" pass. I guess they still have some work to do.
and what do you do when you step on an AIDS infected needle? dumbass.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Indian teens don't sleep together. Indians wait until marriage.
You just have to wear it proud. That's the problem with AIDS, too many people walking around ashamed of the lesions on their face. I walk around with lesions and I make it look good. More girls talk to me *because* of it.
OMG! I never noticed that before - BING is a recursive acronym. Meaning Bing Is Not Google.
Yet another example of MS following the GNU project ;-)
My pics.
What kind of pervert would consider these sexual in nature, thought? Wisty, you sicko!
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Ken sent me.
Wait... uh...
"I don't think anyone will go wrong in assuming an operating stove is hot. "
Tell that to every small child.
That's why I open the door with my dick.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.