Microsoft Bing now has porn filter

Good news to parents, the software giant modified its Bing search engine to add a safe search filter that will make it easier for parents to block or monitor what their kids are viewing on the site. With this feature, parents can use almost any 3rd party parental control tools to block specific domains that contains explicit images and videos not suited for young audience. This initiative is Microsoft's response to the numerous feedback regarding how too easy for kids to find and view porn from Bing search.


There are two changes that Microsoft introduced on a blog entry.
According to the blog post,

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.

Another change is,

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

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