[Web] Bing Makes Changes to Allow Porn Filtering


	[Web] Bing Makes Changes to Allow Porn Filtering

Laxon

6-13-2009 9:24 PM

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bing, microsoft, search engine bing, kids, parents, safesearch

Laxon says:

If children are already searching for porn... maybe its the parent's blatant mistake now.

But at least they 'fixed' it.

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