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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!
Is the reverse possible? I.e. explicit content only??!! :)
... 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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I hate it when I type pretty much anything in for an image search in google and I end up with porn. Okay when I'm at home but when I'm at work ... not so cool.
go to booble.com
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
I guess they found a much more lucrative application for parental controls.
Isn't that technically a subdomain?
Ezekiel 23:20
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!
Google just make sure they let the filtering people know how to categorise the pages based on if Safesearch is on or off. On my filter I can choose to block google images entirely or just when safesearch is off and that works just fine without needing another domain name.
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Come on gang, forget the snark below his post, this guy has a piece of the puzzle right! MS can lever the threat to "accidentally" label polka spotted portions of the web as "explicit" while daring the global web community to figure it out!
While he's funny with the MS-product side, they can accept payments to label ANYTHING as explicit! Wheee!!
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BadAnalogyGuy has gone to ground after being outed as a Scientologist. But if he should contact you, offering a free personality test, firmly refuse him.
Thanks, but you don't have to worry. I have no personality.
Or for example, they really want to do business in China so they label anything "free Tibet" explicit, etc etc.ÂIt is a good idea in the sense that it can give better control of what goes over your network. But it is very open to abuse.
Who's got the explicitometer to decide which domain to place content in? Censorship is getting increasingly surreal.
I'll bite!
Ya see, my anthro class sponsored a field trip to the Mohave desert. You should have SEEN the Vista! I'm tellin' ya, you ain't seen nuthin' until you checked out a desert sunset headed into a full moon.
Then it was time to set up our water filtering equipment. Can kernels of corn grow in desert conditions...
Oh wait... you wanted an *exact phrase* search for Windows Vista? Oops, sorry.
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After the week of the usual standard Microsoft product marketing tactics:
* Astroturfing by marketing companies hiring people to sit around all day posting "I'm a Google fan but gosh darn it! I've switched to Bing!" posts all over the Net
* TV and other media spots
* Getting all their MS friendly people in the computing media to hype the crap out of the rebranded old Microsft search product
Microsoft's search engine plummeted right back down into irrelvancy in marketshare and all people are left talking about is "LOL! Bing is great for porn type posts and stories"
I'll bite!
Ya see, my anthro class sponsored a field trip to the Mohave desert. You should have SEEN the Vista! I'm tellin' ya, you ain't seen nuthin' until you checked out a desert sunset headed into a full moon.
Then it was time to set up our water filtering equipment. Can kernels of corn grow in desert conditions...
[snip]
Were you looking out of a window? Or multiple Windoze?
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I have to say that this is really nice. I just added explicit.bing.net to the list of filtered content in our SonicWall and then did an images search for breasts on bing.com with safe-search off and the images that displayed were not what I would consider porn. Many of the images, if not most, were not displayed. I will feel much better about allowing access to bing.com for our students now. Can't believe I'm saying this...but "Good job, Microsoft!"
how to block adult web sites, the non Microsoft way. Of course this doesn't deserve a whole article on slashdot .. :)
So quick vote for how many clicked on the link in the summary thinking it was a link to xXx Bing? And I assume those that don't reply merely have sticky fingers... /hands up
Instead of explicit.bing.com it should have been bada.bing.com
an obligatory statement about the murky distinction between the "bing" for your "bang" coming in 3, 2, 1 ....
Now, Make Your WISE Move...
You are obviously a sockpuppet of David Gerard.
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Exactly. There is no difference between "heavy filtering of results" and results that are explicit coming from a separate domain. All that means is that it makes it easier on your end to filter the explicit.bing.com. Who decides what is explicit? Microsoft. What if you don't agree with them? What if you are the owner of that content? Is there a resolution process? Do you have to sue them? Can you sue them?
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+0 Meh
The same goes for Google where the default is to use moderate filtering.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Sadonecroequinophilia?
They could put that on taiwan.bing.cn, or www.bing.tw
try typing linux into bing... after 'linu' it will give the following suggestions:
...
...
linux
linux windows
linux microsoft
linux vista
linux commands
while google suggests:
linuxtoday
linux
linux commands
linux mint
linux download
Already seems a little jaded.
explicit.bing.net?
They should have gone with bada.bing.net.
You can either filter on a sophisticated ruleset te detect what you describe, or you can block one host in one domain (the same domain of 'bing.com', just a different host record within it....)
It's good that google accommodated the need, but just because Google did it one way and MS did it another that Google's way must be better (by better, this would mean easier).
It would help to have the flaws in MS's approach actually described and how Google's overcomes it.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Actually I don't see how this would make it any easier for said institutions and governments at all. Regardless of what Microsoft deems as explicit, bing is just one of many venues from which to obtain information and media on the internet. Also, big brother-ing people to protect them from thought-crime would only serve to further alienate users from the internet, and thus, their computers; how would this serve Microsoft's interests at all?
Apparently wizard is not a legitimate career path, so I chose programmer instead.
"linux windows, linux microsoft, linux vista"
Yet more Microsoft search innovation. It is patently obvious that 'search' is a weapon in directing people to websites that Microsoft want you to go to ..
...if you search for "best loan insurance" and you get tons of broken images. Clever.
"Explicit" is an even stupider way to describe porn than "graphic" is, because it always applies to way more than what you really mean. If you mean porn, then say "porn."
It always amused me when music albums used to come with an "parental advisory: explicit lyrics" warning; they might as well have just said, "look out, this album isn't all just instrumental" or "warning: not much abstract symbolism, the writer actually knows how to write."
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Next domains to be built:
democracy.bing.com
dissent.bing.com
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Anything that allows the users more choices is a good thing. Those who want to block porn may,those who don't want to block porn don't have to. And more tools for parents is a good thing also. Kudos to MS for this option!!
Jack of all trades,master of none
A few people seem to misunderstand why Microsoft did this. It's not to make it easier to search for porn. It's to make it easier to filter it out. All NSFW images/videos returned in search results will be hosted at explicit.bing.com. Network police at schools and businesses can filter the domain explicit.bing.com so that users cannot bypass their filters and access porn using bing.com. It is NOT a special site for you to find porn. Sorry :(
I can say [REDACTED] anytime I want!
I put Bing to the test. First search term, "grossao". It found the Grossao stories (erotica), plus a whole lot more that's pornographic at best, illegal at worst. It found zoophilia, for goodness sake!
Bing certainly has to be my search engine of choice for when I'm feeling horny! lol.
It would surely have amused - but not surprised - Orwell to hear cries of "Thoughtcrime!" raised when a real crime is being prosecuted.
I'd wager that is actually Microsofts main intended user, not individuals/concerned parents. Microsoft: the only halfway innovative technologies they ever come up with are tools of repression.
This is just too much.
But you got it half right.
If you want to control the user, you don't begin with the client, you begin with the server.
The network. The backbone.
That is why the administrator is universally despised.
But on which side of the equation will you usually find the geek - and *NIX?
They already have openstandards.microsoft.com
which is different from all other open standards sites.
democracy.bing.kp for the Democratic People of North Korea.
You know what, this actually IS a good choice! And when properly used, content filtering software might actually make use of this domain to effectively filter any kind of explicit content.
Now I just wonder... Which one will be used more? Bing, or the explicit section?
I am not devoid of humor.