Information Madness

Its only few days since Microsoft announced its new search engine Bing and it is surrounded by controversies. Though Microsoft took care of user friendliness while designing the Bing, it led to some loop holes in filtering adult content which is not appropriate for children across the world.

Larry Magid from CNET reported that just after few clicks on the Bing Search Engine, anyone will have access to loads of adult content.  Bing's video search tool has a preview mode that lets you view and listen to part of a video simply by hovering over it with your mouse. So when you search for such terms, it does warn you for the sexual explicit content but once you turn it off, simply putting your mouse over the thumbnail will play the actual video.

But If you are in India and trying to hunt for some adult content using Bing, you will be out of luck. Web searches using the terms "sex" or "sexual" from India on Microsoft's new search engine Bing receive a message that the search may return sexually explicit content and advises users to change search terms.

Normally you should be able to change your search preferences to enable the adult filter off but for Bing India, you won't find that preference option. So no more sexual content for you "Indians".. I wonder why though? Why Bing India is deciding what can Indians see and what not ?

Solution? On the right top corner, change the country from India to United States or visit Bing USA directly