Microsoft Bing Porn Content Gets Its Own Domain

Bing is so good at finding porn and displaying it that Microsoft will serve all the adult-oriented content from a specific domain. That way, according to their blog, it will be a lot easier to filter:

First, potentially 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 makes it much easier for filtering software to block unwanted content if SafeSearch has been turned off.

In addition, we will begin returning source url information in the query string for images and video content so that companies who already use this method of filtering will be able to catch explicit content on Bing along with everything else they are already blocking for their customers.

So no, it won’t affect your ability to get some bada-bing in the privacy of your own home, but your company or school will be able to filter all of it easily. Kudos for Microsoft to think about those who care about these things without affecting those who don’t care. [Bing]