Bing Goes Live, Some Bloggers Shocked to Find Porn

From PC World: Microsoft's new search engine Bing is now live, two days ahead of schedule, available for anyone to use. The world has already been taking the latest search engine for a test drive to see what they think of the successor to Live Search. So far the general consensus is Bing has a lot of interesting and helpful features to help improve your search experience like help finding airfares on the results page, instant answers to common questions, quick previews of Web content and more reliable health information.

But like any new tech toy, Bing has brought unexpected attention since its release into the wild. In the heat of the moment after discovering something that looks scandalous, some bloggers can get carried away, forgetting about important things like context or those pesky facts that always seem to get in the way of a good story. Here's what's going on and why things are not exactly as they seem.

One spicy Bing-related topic popping up on the Web today is the Bing Video Search preview feature. Some say it is every adolescent boy's dream come true. Just set your preferences for Bing Video Search to unfiltered search results, and try running a search for "porn" or whatever naughty search term you like on Bing. What you'll find is explicit video previews from the deepest, darkest corners of the Web. As you can imagine, this trick has gotten some serious attention, and some bloggers have apparently spent the entire morning running these searches (in the name of news of course).

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