Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 6, 2009 @12:12PM from the back-to-spontaneous-generation dept.

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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With the Kama Sutra ... by bkaul · 2009-06-06 13:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

... maybe Microsoft just figured it'd be redundant.
Hasnt the time come yet ? by unity100 · 2009-06-06 14:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

considering all the flops they have made in the last 3 years, when will it be politically correct to rename them moronsoft ?

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