Microsoft's New Search Engine Brings Back Porn

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 1, 2009 3:11 PM CDT
Microsoft's New Search Engine Brings Back Porn
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer.   (AP Photo)

Some in the technology world are questioning Microsoft’s decision to enable its new search engine, Bing, to display video on the site itself, the Telegraph reports. The new technology—not shared by Google and the like—allows for pornographic film to run on the search page should the searcher input the proper terms. Though “safe search” is on by default, it’s easily disabled. (More Microsoft stories.)

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