Bing Searches NSFW
After my article yesterday about Bing the new porn site (or portal, really), readers suggested I delve into the Bing search mechanism a little further.
So now I must caution you about using Bing for work, until they fix this fatally flawed search engine.
This image shows the results for “girls” on SAFE SEARCH. The organic results are fine, but take a look at the related searches!
I then clicked on videos, still in safe search mode. The first video was of a woman in a g-string dancing provocatively in a bar. At least there was no hard core porn, and most of the videos were okay.
However, our research shows that people tend to move their cursor to where there eyes are on a web site page, and as soon as my cursor hovered over the video, the dancer came to life, along with music that left no doubt what I was looking at.
Want this to happen at work? Probably not.
Microsoft has cleaned some of it up. Safe search and moderate safe search don’t bring up the same images they did yesterday. They obviously still have some work ahead of them, though.
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Kay, as always, a great article. I can’t afford to use Bing at work the way it’s set up now. t
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No way! Looks like you have unearthed a real problem for Microsoft here
How can a company like MS can do all this.They are defeated in ERP market by SAP, they are defeated by Google and even their Asp.net is facing competition from php.
THANKS for doing the “dirty” work here!!!! (pun intended!!) I’ve been seeing the intense media blitz for the search engine but haven’t had a chance to dig in. After “catching” up here – I’m glad I didn’t!
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I don’t see anything wrong with girls in G strings dancing on bars
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I Love Bing and love how popular it is becoming
Diva,
I took the time to watch the nice g-string video you linked to. Thanks!
Okay, just kidding.
What I did instead was to Google “girls” and see what came up on the Google SERP.
Top listing was Maxim magazine. They must have some powerful SEO! That is an arguably great first listing.
But in the unified search — not in the video tab — I got a video result:
“Why Only Young Girls Should Strip”
This video features a beautiful but a-little-bit-older woman doing a VLog-style video. She let’s down her hair, takes off her shirt and…
It ends up being a funny video, disguised, initially, as a sexy one. But I would have been just as embarrassed if someone walked in during the first part of this video as the Bing / Myspace / g-string video.
Not saying I am switching from Google any time soon, but I also wouldn’t call Bing “fatally flawed” … Flawed, but I just wouldn’t say “fatally”
Have you informed Microsoft about this? Im sure they would e very interested to know about it
Ha ha this is a brilliant flaw you have found.
haha I cant believe that you keep finding things wrong with Bing. This is a fairly bad one
I have heard a lot about Bing.com. It looks OK to me, such videos are a normal part of any search engine.Lets see what all changes are going to take place.
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i think bing is really good, even more now!lol
SEO Diva,
Wow! Thanks for the warning- I would be quite embarrassed if I got caught with some provocative BING searches. Looks like they have some work ahead of them- and need to be careful with what those youngsters search- they are probably the ones most enjoying such a show!
Once again, proves to show Google cannot be taken from the #1 Spot!
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So Bing is not working properly. $80 million and still not working properly.
whats wrong with Microsoft?
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That’s so ridiculous that they haven’t yet found a way to block most of that porn junk. I can’t imagine all the younger kids that gave Bing a try when it first came out. Terrible.
The line between “safe” and “unsafe” blurs on almost a daily basis. However, I’m not entirely sure all blame should be placed on Microsoft – “parental control” starts with the parents utilizing better education/tools on their own local PCs, or in their homes. Regardless, Microsoft has clearly lowered the bar on what constitutes graphic with respect to their own engine’s filtering mechanism …
Bing steals many content from other sites.
lol – i don’t know which is more embarrassing.. getting caught with risque search results.. or using bing in the first place
“Microsoft has cleaned some of it up. Safe search and moderate safe search don’t bring up the same images they did yesterday.”
what you think microsoft has repair it ??
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“”Sourav says:
June 22, 2009 at 10:02 am
So Bing is not working properly. $80 million and still not working properly.
whats wrong with Microsoft? “”
wow it’s fantastic budget,. where you get this info??
I think Bing is good enough..
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I also find that the new bing is not efficient whenever I search it always shows twitter in the search result. What’s wrong with M.S
This is alarming!Thanks for bringing it to my notice.I would certainly not like to come across such a thing during work.Hope Microsoft continue to their work effectively like they have been doing.
Yes I am agree that It is so blur betwen safe and unsafe. But everything must be filtered, there must not be free anymore
I think bing exist not only the compete with another search engine, but also to search great site, not just ussual site
All search engine seem to do this. I was searching for something related to my health and a lot of vulgar pages came up as a result. This was at work, thank God I didn’t have the sound on and wasn’t browsing the videos; would have been quite embarrassing. Google has a decent search filter but all of them could improve as more and more children are using the internet these days. Regards!
bing is use by many people and it is very interesting. many people use bing while searching website.
Bing is coming faster and closer is suppose….its ALEXA rankings are now just 64. Lets see what strategy they undertake to compete Google. Lets see what more microsoft had to say on this
You are right. I also have few reservation with Bing, Infect when the name Microsoft comes to mind than it is unacceptable that how they can do this? but this so happens. it training
thanks for pointing this which i have in my mind.
Recently i refereed a news in my college magzine that Bing is getting popular world wide with a very lot of interest in the people & after all the Google is now getting scared of it & yahoo is already in the danger from it!
Bing is chasing Google very fast and i am sure it with walk step by step with Google. I am sure that Google will loose its much of the traffic to Bing. Lets wait to see what happens next.
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Well, you got me to head on over to Bing and search for “girls”. I got the same results as your screen shot, but then, I didn’t do a “safe” search.
PS. Seriously though, another reason to stick with google.
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BING is really loking like it is going to kill google, but not for like 3 years yet
I think they’ve fixed it. I’m looking around, but can’t find the G-String dancing video with moderate safe search.
girls in thongs!..
i use bing all the time now.
I kind of like that flaw! But I also like my job, so El-O’ Google.
As long as they give G00gl3 some competition, I’ll be happy.
Bing is the new one from the Microsoft who will have the ability to tackle with the Google & since Microsoft has done a lot of improvement in that that’s why it is being more popular among the people!No doubt at a time it will take over the Google!
Thanks for sharing.Excellent post, and by the way, nice blog.
Now what to think about it The Bing is one of the greatest search engine but you said it as a porn site but i didn’t see anything like that i typed Ejaculation on bing but the pages i got were simple pages i mean i didnt get anything which seemed to me as a porn!
I have not used Bing but I have heard about it. Thanks for this post.
That’s what I call a huge problem, alarm , red light for Microsoft! Is this the way they want to compete against Google? I wonder what image would appear if you typed a more spicy word in the search box.
Great article! Its nice to have some SE research nowadays as lots more children are into online stuff. I guess Bing still has a long way to go.
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bing.com truly threat google … I hope google still stand to be number one.. Go Google!!
Bing has been solved that problem now. You can easily search in it and it provide you the better
result than else. Great venture from Microsoft.
well it appears bing has so many things to fix before more people start using their search engine… i for one, keep myself distanced from it for now… keep us posted on your little research on bing… it’s the first time i happened on your site and what i love about the site more than anything else is the value of info you share and you keeping things light and fun, keep up the good work!
@Andrea – thanks! I do try to keep things fun.
I cant believe that you keep finding things wrong with Bing. This is a fairly bad one
It seems like there’s no way to get away from the porn on the net. If Microsoft can’t do it with all those millions, chances are that a parent isn’t going to be keeping the kids away from it either. Bing or no bing.
the another name of the flaw search is Bing…its gaining unanimous disapproval from all over the globe…. which is definitely not good for the Microsoft’s people around…. Google is so obsessed in their minds that they are launching products without proper research and proper quality…. BEWARE MS!
I’ve been using Bing and love it! Have you informed Microsoft about this? This is a brilliant flaw you have found.
will bing go out with a bang? (sorry for the pun :p ) this SE is supposed to be more semantic than google.. but will facebook come out with an SE of there own? rumors are tying facebook with Microsoft for possible leverage to compete with Google!
That’s interesting. I still prefer to use Google, especially now that you raised this issue on Bing.
“After my article yesterday about Bing the new porn site (or portal, really), read”
Oops.. I’ve always thought that Bing was supposed to be a search engine. Now, this flawed site has fast become the newest porn site? Why do such errors happen? What really is the positioning of Bing.com ?
Bing quickly cleaned up its act, but it’s amazing to me, with all the resources Microsoft has, that they made these mistakes in the first place.
Cute! I hadn’t heard about a Facebook SE. They have so much going on now, and are so succesful with it, I can’t imagine how they could take that on.
This heads up is really helpful for Bing to improve itself. Why do you think non-work safe links tend to occur? Why haven’t people realized the public use of the Internet? Also, what is Bing’s exact definition of ‘safe search?’
Good questions!
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