Ever since the launch of Bing, there has been wide criticism from various centers on the porn filtering mechanism in Bing video search. There was lot of coverage on media on how Bing search engine makes it all too easy for kids to find and view porn. Although Bing has its own default safe search option similar to Google, it has updated its content serving mechanism so that porn can be blocked in offices, schools and other institutions.
There are two major changes done that will help institutions to filter out porn.
First, potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be. This makes it much easier for filtering software to block unwanted content if SafeSearch has been turned off.
In addition, we will begin returning source url information in the query string for images and video content so that companies who already use this method of filtering will be able to catch explicit content on Bing along with everything else they are already blocking for their customers.
With this change, the offices and institutions can directly block the domain from which explicit images are being served, so that users will not be able to view porn content irrespective of whether safe search is on or off.
Have a look at the Bing complete User Guide
The video and images will not be displayed for any URL which is blocked.
