Microsoft Bing...

[witch]

email from SWGfL - completly blocked now

[rayfleming]

Just got an update internally about this (ie within Microsoft), and it appears that we had put in place some easy ways to allow you to continue to do web searches and enforce the filtering of any adult content. We'd just not circulated the info, beyond releasing it to the main web-filtering companies.

Anyway, here's the key bit, which allows you to add one domain to your filter list to remove any explicit cotent from a Bing.com search, regardless of other filtering/strict search options. This means that even if a user sets the search to have no filtering, your filter will still block it

 

Bing returns all explicit images and videos from a specific domain. Customers can block either *.explicit.bing.net (assuming wildcards work with your solution) or the following four sub-domains to prevent bing.com from displaying images, videos or even thumbnails of content we suspect is explicit because of the nature of its source site or metadata. Images, videos and thumbnails for non-explicit content will still work.

• ts1.explicit.bing.net

• ts2.explicit.bing.net

• ts3.explicit.bing.net

• ts4.explicit.bing.net

 

The internal team also told me "only Bing serves explicit images and videos from a specific domain. Many vendors will still choose to use the source information returned with explicit content, but serving explicit content from a specific domain allows customer and web filtering vendors the option to block only *explicit.bing.net, rather than having to manage a huge list of blocked domains or content."

 

Ray

[localzuk]

Just checked that out with a term that I know turns up porn on all image search sites, and it does appear to block the images. The filtering level appears to be 'not quite the sun', as in, i didn't see any topless women, but i did see a few women in lingerie etc...

 

So, it's fine for us (with our policy being 'if you can see it in The Sun, it's fine) but for others, YMMV

[ICT_GUY]

Bing gets porn domain to filter out explicit images and videos

[localzuk]

Bing gets porn domain to filter out explicit images and videos

 

Haha, that page is blocked by the SWGfL's adaptive filter here...

[ICT_GUY]

Haha, that page is blocked by the SWGfL's adaptive filter here...

 

Figures

ROFL

[enjay]

I've passed Ray's comments on to RM (hope that was okay...) so hopefully they will do something more intuitive than block the whole video search page!

[tom_newton]

Thanks to Ray's input we now have no fewer than 5 ways to block bing porn:

 

1. Cookie mangling (turn off adult in cookie)

2. URL amendments (turn off adult in URL)

3. Deep URL analysis (look for image or video source URL in blacklists)

4. Search term filtering (look for banned terms in search box)

5. Blocking *.explicit.bing.(net|com) as a regex

 

or...

 

6. Be a blunt instrument and block the whole site