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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.'"

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  1. Re:Hm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who uses google for porn anyway?

  2. Re:Foot, meet gun by Thinboy00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [snip]another[snip]

    There, fixed that for you.

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  3. Re:But... by sonicmerlin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most white people, southern or not, are closet homos. The kinds of things white people joke about, think about, talk about, fantasize about... if someone did that in any other non-white majority country they would be considered gay. Comes from the Greeks, that it does.