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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: piratePenguin on 3 August 2010, 22:09

Title: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: piratePenguin on 3 August 2010, 22:09

I had no idea they did stuff like this?

search bing images for bp oil spill (http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=b%D1%80+oil+spill)

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 3 August 2010, 22:19

Hve you tried disabling SafeSearch?

http://www.bing.com/settings.aspx?ru=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bing.com%3a80%2fimages%2fsearch%3fq%3dBP%2boil%2bspill%26FORM%3dBIFD&FORM=SEFD

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Refalm on 3 August 2010, 22:36

WTF that's insane. What possible motivation is behind putting oil spill images behind the adult filter?

I'm glad everyone uses Google.

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Lead Head on 5 August 2010, 20:10

I turned safe search off and it still won't show any images of the spill.

edit: I think it may just be a shitty search algorithm. "oil bp spill" gives you plenty of images, even with safe search on.

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: piratePenguin on 5 August 2010, 20:43

bahahah

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/does-google-censor-tiananmen-square-how-to-create-an-internet-hoax/

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Refalm on 5 August 2010, 21:09

LOL

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 6 August 2010, 00:49

A clever little prank.

I didn't know about the homograph phishing exploit, this is a good way to demonstrate it to people.

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Lead Head on 6 August 2010, 21:26

I lol'd.

Title: Re: Bing censoring the oil spill??
Post by: Refalm on 6 August 2010, 21:47

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on  6 August 2010, 00:49

A clever little prank.

I didn't know about the homograph phishing exploit, this is a good way to demonstrate it to people.

That reminds me of:
http://www.rferl.org/content/Cyrillic_Domain_Names_Become_Operational_On_The_Internet/2041131.html (http://www.rferl.org/content/Cyrillic_Domain_Names_Become_Operational_On_The_Internet/2041131.html)