I am now using Bing because Google ruined their search so much with this stupid new safe-search. Who else has done the same?

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Pretty sure you can turn it off? Google 4eva.

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In the US they've started disabling safesearch off for image search. You can only use strict filtering or moderate.

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Really? First I've heard of this - odd.

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this put a massive monkey wrench in my plan to search for homosexual scalie porn

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Um.. no. They have strict filtering and off. They've removed moderate as an option.

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I'm looking at it right fucking now.

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Guys, guys, chill. Move to England and you can Google blue waffles to your heart's content.

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I'm looking at it too. Learn to search.

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You realize this is a help page for the Google iOS app? Possibly not relevant.

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This is for the app.

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https://www.google.com/preferences
For me all I see is a checkbox for turning filtering on and off like so

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I have a slider with three settings.

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"Off" is now effectively "Moderate", unless you actively search for more explicit images.

Further down this page, gasaraki03 links to an article about Google changing their image search algorithm to reduce accidental porn hits. Google isn't really blocking explicit images, they just aren't returning them unless you actively ask for explicit images (beyond just having safe search off).

At first the change bugged me, but with more use, I'm not sure I mind. If you don't want porn, then you are much less likely to get it. If you do want porn, you can just include an appropriate keyword and you'll still get it.

It could be an issue for edge cases, though. Sometimes you want to find a certain thing, and you don't care whether it is "safe" or "explicit". But now you might need to run that search twice, once to search through "safe" results and a second time to search through "explicit" ones.

[Entire text edited as my opinion changed]

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dunno what u say... mine is working ok... i dont see anything changed ;))

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nope,. I prefer my search engine to return useful results.

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you have won 1 internet

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make that 2

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And a third internet to you Mr BearHugger.

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And a third internet to you Mr BearHugger.

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or paid results.

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lol wtf, why would anyone go to bing

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Safe search has been around for years and has always had the option to be turned off.

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Think he means when trying to look up some dirty p0rnz

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Take the Bing vs. Google test HERE

Reply to this comment...I want to know which browser you picked

I got Bing

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Google FTW

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I got Bing :/

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Took it a while ago and I got bing. but right now, google is just a convenience for me. Google+, Google Drive, Gmail, Youtube, when i type something into the dang address bar it googles for me. and the difference between Bing and Google was so small anyways

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Search engine* FTFY

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google

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I got Google.

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Both are crappy, both couldn't find any of my searches at all. I had a draw on both hahaha (on the fourth one, Bing almost won, but I scrolled down and google had a better one so I tied)

5th round I chose the best question I could think of to test them both. Draw. Both search engines require me to be VERY specific on my searches, though I am rather picky on my ordeals.

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Sounds like you just don't know how to use search engines.

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Naw, the things I search are things you most like wouldn't search. Though bing searched up some Mp3 song on a freemp3 site.... when the thing I asked for was completely irrelevant (google deserved a point for that, but I was a bit picky)

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done it before and got bing :P but I feel I was cheating somehow XD

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Your link redirects me to http://www.bing.com/

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Basically google made it harder to accidently find porn. They changed this last night its new.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57558795-93/google-tweaks-image-search-to-make-porn-harder-to-find/

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Yeah, that seems to explain it.

Searches that used to turn up nudity and more explicit images now don't. It seems like you pretty much have to ask for nudity to have it show up, and the same goes for more explicit images. That is true with safe search off.

Also, like others have said, US users seem to have lost the three levels of "Off", "Moderate", and "Strict". Now it is just "Off" and "On". It looks like "Off" now roughly means "Moderate", unless you throw in a keyword like "nudity" or "hardcore sex".

This is...annoying. It messes with search results, making it harder to find certain things. It also puts a bit of a lie to the idea of not having safe search on.

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I can still turn off my safe-search, or am I missing something?

But if I was going to use something other than Google, I would use DuckDuckGo, mostly for its name.

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Not for image search. I have safe search disabled normally, google changed it to its safe version, changed it back, but it wont allow changing it for images.

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Why would you do this...

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Don't lie. It got your heart racing.

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It's only disabled in the US.

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Bing is garbage.

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i second that motion, its searches are really limited to what Microsoft wants

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Not entirely true. For at least a while, its searches were based on what Google returned. If you did a Google search either using Internet Explorer or from a browser that had the Bing Toolbar installed, those programs would send the results of your search to Microsoft. The Microsoft guys handling Bing were feeding those results into Bing's search engine. Google caught Microsoft in a sting using a few rigged obscure search returns. When caught, the Microsoft guys turned around and complained that Google "sabotaged" them.

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I dunno, I just use Bing because of the free Amazon cards :D

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I would use bing if bing rewards was available in Canada

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It would pain me to use Bing over Google, but yes, this. Bing is still trash.

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Since Google integrated their adds into the search results, people that pay get top spot in the search. I only use bing for shopping at this point, but it's because of this. Search "scroogled" to see more.

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ILL POUR A 40 FOR ALTAVISTA RIP IN PEACE

FUCK GOOGLE

WHERE ARE THE GOOD OL DAYS WITH NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR

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I loved Wired's HotBot! Those were the days. I love how easy the internet is to use now, but the 90s were fun.

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I use both but mostly Bing because of its rewards program.

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Go Crayon Pop

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"I am now using Bing because Google ruined their search so much with this stupid new safe-search."?

"New"? Safe-search has always been a part of google, for YEARS now. You can, when signed in to gmail / youtube, go to your settings for google and turn it off, if somehow you managed to make it bug out and turn it on without you having set it that way yourself. This isn't rocket science?

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This...?

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You don't even need to sign in as it stores a cookie that you've disabled it (if you don't have a Google account).

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Same in the UK. Think it's a US thing.

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Nope. Google ftw.

Edit: You can still look up pr0n on google.

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Most definitely, I actually found hentai without even trying at all to find it...

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Eh, Strict was crap anyway. Filtering on and off the explicit stuff and that's it is a better system imo

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I've done my fair share of sleuthing, and Bing always sucked in comparison to Google when it came to finding needed information.

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I am using google when it isn't blocked by China
And when it is blocked by China I use Yahoo.
Bing is even more dodgy here than google.
And Internet Explorer as a browser is very difficult so therefore I am running chrome

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iirc Yahoo uses Bing.

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Yep but Yahoo buts in the blocks that China wants and bing doesn't. Same search engine just with restrictions

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I'll be quite candid... this is pretty much the only reason I still use google. Google Japan has kept my faith very strong right now. Which is also the MAIN reason I love VOCALOIDs.

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If I ever stop using Google I doubt I'll be wanting a search engine that copies Google's results. So I can't see myself ever going to Bing.

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I've been using bing for ages now. The thing I love the most now in it is the rewards XD just use it for searches and you can get sweepstakes entrees, xbox points and xbox live subs :D

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Nope, Google has the better search results from my experience.

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Search engines have become boring since and well they all show the same crap now, was better in the past... :-/

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Closed 12 years ago by pyromcr.