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Bing Gets Porn Domain To Filter Explicit Content
sopssa writes "Bing has set up a separate domain just for porn images and videos. '[The] general manager of Microsoft Bing said in a blog post that potentially explicit images and video content now will be coming from one separate domain — explicit.bing.net. 'This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be.' When Bing was first launched, there was some online chatter about explicit images popping up when videos were 'previewed' in the search results. This means the thumbnails and videos are served from that domain, allowing easy filter of them in corporate and school networks. Users still normally use www.bing.com. Instead of heavily filtering the results, this is quite a good move."
I'm tired of non-explicit images ruining my Google searches!
... an explicit content provider. I guess soon Linux related content would be served by nasty.bing.net, just in case...
How does Microsoft define what is 'explicit'?
That would be an interesting job. Microsoft Smut Engineer. Wait, I think that's what they already call MS Office developers...
"Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help customers, whether they are large enterprises, local school districts or parents" - Mike Nichols, general manager of Microsoft Bing.
Never done.
Yep, sounds informative.
j.
Microsoft today heeded the lessons of technological history, taking the popular "preview porn videos in the search engine" feature and turning its Bob Hope search engine into a porn finder at the address explicit.bobhope.microsoft.com.
"It worked for VHS over Beta, porn sites were leading innovators in online payments. It's a natural synergy," said Steve Ballmer, looking somewhat sweaty and flushed.
Porn sites are some of the keenest users of Microsoft technologies, using the undocumented interfaces in Internet Explorer to install helpful toolbars and bulk email tools on users' systems. "It's all about tools. Developers, developers, developers, developers!"
Windows 7 final will include a "boot straight into porn" mode. "We found that was what users really wanted in an operating system." It will include the Storm, Conficker and FBI botnets as standard. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Mr Ballmer promised that Microsoft will, as always, deliver. "Unlike porn sites, we don't just tease — we really will fuck you. Totally."
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What a way to get into the hearts and hands of millions of users worldwide! I think they'll be finding the usage of Bing shoot up dramatically but I'd like to see the comparison between normal Bing and xXx Bing!
Well, in this context, in my experience more a domsubain... I mean, or so I heard.
(ok, it's lame, but this asked for a BDSM joke and I coudn't come up with a better one)
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Use greasemonkey/AdBlock to remove all images from bing.com but whitelist explicit.bing.com? At least that would save you some bandwidth in downloading non-explicit content.
With jokes like that, you must really be strapped for cash ;)
Instead of explicit.bing.com it should have been bada.bing.com
You think an MCSE could tell the difference?
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Maybe badda-bing.com???
Yep.
Oh, god, horrible mental images. My brain just kind of fused the parent, GP, and GGP into one *thing* and got a dominatrix with a strap on making her sub beat off a dead horse. I need to go bleach my brain now.
That's funny, it worked perfectly when I searched for "your mom"!
The question is, are any images like the ones in your brain available on Bing right now?
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explicit.bing.net?
They should have gone with bada.bing.net.