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Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India 355

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 06, 2009 @07:12PM from the back-to-spontaneous-generation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently Microsoft is censoring search results for Bing in India and other countries. If you try to search for the term 'sex,' along with lots of variations, from India using Microsoft's new search engine, an error message is returned that says, 'the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.' There's no preference setting or toggle-on-or-off choice; you simply cannot search for the term 'sex' in India if you are using Bing. While a user still can change their country and try the non-Indian version of Bing, this seems like an unnecessary step and unnecessary censorship on the part of Microsoft. Apparently Google has no problem with Indians searching for the term 'sex.'"

Comment Re:braces (Score 3, Insightful) 956

by oddsends on Sunday July 20, 2008 @10:06AM (#24262431) Attached to: Best and Worst Coding Standards?

Now tell me, those studies refer to the readbility of the english language, not a given computer language, right?

Submission + - Canadian University students protecting their IP

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb on Sunday April 08, 2007 @01:52PM

innocent_white_lamb writes: Graduate students at Carleton University (Ottawa) are taking steps to protect their intellectual property and insuring that they are being properly recognized for their work, according to this article. This is in response to the increased commercialization of research done at universities, and high-profile cases of copyright infringement by professors at the University of Toronto and Indiana University.

Feed KDDI Mobile - KDDI to launch US MVNO, stop the presses! (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday April 08, 2007 @01:32PM

Filed under: Cellphones

KDDI, Japan's number two cellphone carrier, totally blew our minds, everybody: they stated today that they'll be starting up an MVNO on Sprint in the US, name: KDDI Mobile. What's the point of yet another MVNO? (We're obligated to ask.) Well, besides giving Helio a run for their money in the Asian-carrier-gone-US-MVNO biz, maybe, just maybe we'll finally see a slew of totally slick and unbelievably well designed Japanese featurephones stateside (see above). Unfortunately, it sounds like they want to cater to Japanese expats in the US (are there really that many?); either way we definitely just got the warm n' fuzzies.

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