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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.
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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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 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 .. :)
Instead of explicit.bing.com it should have been bada.bing.com
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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try typing linux into bing... after 'linu' it will give the following suggestions:
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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.
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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.
...if you search for "best loan insurance" and you get tons of broken images. Clever.