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.
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.
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!