Bing Gets Porn Domain To Filter Explicit Content 200
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."
just use booble (Score:5, Informative)
go to booble.com
Re:How does Microsoft define what is 'explicit'? (Score:5, Informative)
Google already came up with a better way (Score:5, Informative)
Re:good idea (Score:5, Informative)
This Bing change won't help with that.
I don't expect that the image or video results you get with Bing vs Google at any preferred level of "safe search" filtering are much different, and that's not going to change with this announcement.
All the Bing change does, rather belatedly, is stop overriding parental controls (Open DNS, Net Nanny, etc) that would block porn domains. What happens up until now is that Bing self-hosts all it's image/video thumbnails from it's own servers - porn included - and starts to play these thumbnail videos automatically - direct from Microsoft's servers - when you mouseover them. Since the videos are coming from a Microsoft domain rather than a porn domain, parental porn filters are bypassed.
All the Bing change does is to move Microsoft's porn video reviews from bing.com to microsofts-hard-core-porn-server.bing.com so that Open DNS, Net Nanny, etc can once again be used to block this stuff.
Re:Google already came up with a better way (Score:5, Informative)
That works great for individual users. This is -not- meant for individuals. This is meant for companies, schools, etc. You can block that domain at your firewall/proxy/dns/whatever and make -sure- none of your users see it, no matter what settings they choose.
Re:Google already came up with a better way (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hrmmm (Score:5, Informative)
Just tried it - explicit.bing.com gives you SFW and NSFW - using that domain is just like saying "switch off safe search". AFAICT, there's no "unsafe search" option.
Re:Hrmmm (Score:2, Informative)
Well, there is already PornTube, PornoTube, YouPorn, RedTube, XTube, etc etc...
(shamefully posting as AC)
Re:good idea (Score:4, Informative)
Yep - this is just the thumbnails on the Bing search results page.
Re:just use booble (Score:5, Informative)
On your advice, I just tried booble. I have to say, it's complete rubbish. For each search I tried, all the hits on the first page were advertising, and none of them were even advertising anything remotely related to what I searched for. If you're using a search engine, you want relevant results - not just random advertising.
As a net admin for a school.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hrmmm (Score:5, Informative)
There's one of those for Google here [monzy.org].
Re:good idea (Score:4, Informative)
It's a lie; it doesn't work (Score:1, Informative)
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.
Re:One hell of a statement (Score:1, Informative)
sig in sig field, dippy. Who wants to read "j" after every one of your posts? No one.