Cnet reported last week that Microsoft has added porn filtering to their new search engine Bing. This comes after coverage about how its Bing search engine makes it all too easy for kids to find and view porn. The changes will make it easier for parents to block or monitor what their kids are viewing on the site.
As part of this change, Microsoft announced "explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain, which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be."
This change allows parents to use parental control tools to block that domain and therefore block the images and videos. This also makes it easier for corporate proxy administrators to block explicit images in their proxy. But if you were using a proxy that already had a safe search feature, you probably didn't need this fix from Microsoft. A good reminder, why the state of the art proxies are an admin's friend, especially when new sites like Bing come around.
Monday, June 15, 2009
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