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Bing gets WOT ratings
pią 03 lip 2009 10:18:16 UTC — Deborah S.
Microsoft's Bing, the search engine formally known as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search, has garnered lots of attention lately (and a bit of market share too.) WOT supports Bing search results with our ratings, in addition to supporting other popular search engines.
Porn made easy
Recent criticisms of Bing say that it's making searching for porn too easy. Bing has a feature called Smart Motion Previews which provides video previews in the search results, which is great in concept, but it doesn't know the difference between a video of sleeping puppies and porn. Any motivated middle schooler can easily turn off Bing's SafeSearch and watch porn for hours without ever visiting a porn site.
Kim Komando suggests blocking Bing until Microsoft comes up with a solution. For people attempting to surf porn at work, Microsoft has published instructions for a workaround that will make it harder to access porn from their work PCs.
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Komentarze
What about Scroogle?
pią 03 lip 2009 21:35:41 UTC — CCleanerScroogle protects your privacy. It should be something that WOT would like.
Ditto
sob 04 lip 2009 16:30:17 UTC — cotojoI use Scroogle scraper, but when searching for malware etc it is necessary to use ALL of the search engines as results vary so much.
WOT supports the major search engines and for many users that is sufficient but sometimes we have to deviate from the norm :-)
Colin
http://freepcsecurity.co.uk
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it" - Winston Churchill
Bing
sob 04 lip 2009 20:46:10 UTC — KovichI don't think that Bing is ever really going to catch on. It seems as though Google is in the lead and will continue to be there. http://www.puretalkforum.com
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czw 23 lip 2009 14:13:44 UTC — judy hansenJust another microsoft product being shoved down our throats. I hate It. It's google or nothing for me.
Bing can't make it.
nie 05 lip 2009 02:36:28 UTC — ACuteBunnyIf you truly think about it, Bing is better than Google.
In every way.
So then why do more people still use Google then?
Google is popular, so much that even "Google" has become a verb.
ex. "Why don't you just Google it?"
Its simplicity shows no limits, its the original search engine.
Its like a monopoly of the search engine business.
I thought a monopoly was illegal?
Beside that, the pornography bit can be solved with an idea I came up with.
Since it is a Microsoft product, and they do love to connect things to each other (ex. Windows Media Center and a Xbox 360). Why not integrate the family safety software they already use on PC's, except this time its within the search engine itself. In some way, it could filter out inappropriate searches.
Even better if they just ban the search of the word "porn" (and the other ones of course)
Bing can't ban specific words effectively
nie 05 lip 2009 22:00:42 UTC — JazspeakIt is not really possible to effectively ban specific words in search engines for a number of reasons. For instance, the word, porn, could be written with a numeric 0 instead of the letter o, and the change would probably escape the filter. It used to be the case that the UK counties of Saxon origin were filtered because part of the name of the county contained a three-letter banned word, eg Sussex, Essex, Wessex, and the UK town of Scunthorpe could have been similarly filtered so as to effectively wipe it from the map.
When it comes to filtering searches and access to sites it should be for the individual person to self-censor their searches. When it comes to blocking access by children then that is the responsibility of the parents to monitor their child's Internet use. There are already available filters that parents can use to prevent children accessing unsavoury sites without restricting the freedom of adults. Anyone advocating built-in restrictions of search parameters is either too lazy or too uninformed to do it for themselves, and the answer is not built-in restrictions but is to wake up and get educated.
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nie 05 lip 2009 23:38:21 UTC — FlyAquaDeborah: "Recent criticisms of Bing say that it's making searching for porn too easy. Bing has a feature called Smart Motion Previews which provides video previews in the search results, which is great in concept, but it doesn't know the difference between a video of sleeping puppies and porn. Any motivated middle schooler can easily turn off Bing's SafeSearch and watch porn for hours without ever visiting a porn site."
In Germany they are introducing a new law to block porno sites. You read correctly. Block them. So nobody can access them (and some polititians want to use it for other contents they don't like). So what's the point of that law then?!