Bing the New Porn Site?
September 8, 2009
Microsoft has a serious problem. Bing allows easy access to porn right in searches.
Bing gives one minute clips of videos directly in the search window. Cool feature. Except they haven’t filtered out the porn. Any kid can watch it, and there’s no browser history on these for a parent to keep on eye on.
MSN supposedly tried to put a band aid on it buy making the boxes black, but if you mouse over them you can still see the video. Actually, I tested this (market research only) and the videos popped right up, no black boxes involved. One click turns off safe search, so that’s no protection for innocent eyes.
The only recourse parents have right now is to totally block Bing. Open DNS makes this easy to do.
Microsoft was so busy putting together their $80 million rollout of Bing, they overlooked a huge issue, and now people are actually blocking the site
