Bing, in essence, is taking all the "cards" that point to pornography and putting them together in one drawer. Think of the old card catalogues in libraries. Olds explained that having the single porn domain basically means Bing is able to better categorize images and video as pornographic or not. They're just categorizing it differently, which gives customers the option to either provide people in their organizations with the ability to search and view the content or to have it filtered out." It's not like Microsoft is censoring anything. "They were taking heat because of their video preview feature," he noted. But Nichols noted in another blog on June 4, that individuals and corporate IT executives had asked for more control.Īnd adding the porn domain was a good response to those requests, according to Dan Olds, principal analyst with Gabriel Consulting Group Inc. Microsoft had been quick to note that, by default, Bing "does not return explicit adult content in video or image results". ![]() When Bing was first launched, there was some online chatter about explicit images popping up when videos were "previewed" in the search results. ![]() "Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help customers, whether they are large enterprises, local school districts or parents, make sure they can provide a safe searching experience when using Bing." "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," wrote Nichols. Mike Nichols, 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.
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