Microsoft’s new search engine Bing caused a huge up stir after its initial launch. The stir comes because of the video search feature of Bing. One of Bing’s most useful features is that it will allow you to view movies or clips from its search engine by just scrolling over this. However many parents find this troublesome as it works not only with normal videos but porn videos as well. While Bing does have a safe search feature, it warns the user that it’s on and asks if you would like to turn it off. This makes it very easy for a teenager to access porn.

While you can find the porn on almost any search engine it’s the preview feature that has brought Bing into the light. There are several filtering programs that blog porn sites however it’s uncertain if they will block Bing’s previews. This is because Bing is a search engine and not an actual porn site so such programs may have trouble dealing with Bing.

When it comes to Norton it’s one of the programs that can’t prevent the videos on Bing. Most other search engines are covered by the software however since Bing is still new the company hasn’t had time to integrate it yet. Symantec, the company who creates Norton is currently recommending that parents that are worried about Bing’s video search and that use Norton should just block all access to Bing. For Microsoft this is not a very good thing especially after the launch of their best search engine yet. The OnlineFamily software of Symantec’s is free so many parents do use it and it could hurt Microsoft’s search engine for a little while until the program incorporates it. It seems Microsoft has outdone itself with its new search engine and has also caused itself a few problems.

Source: CNET

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