News MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86

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  1. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    Found this little tidbit on Slashdot:

    Thomas Shaddack spotted this on http://www.root.cz/ (in Czech) -- if you go to http://search.msn.com/ and search for 'XFree86', it tells you that you've 'entered a search term that is likely to return adult content', and directs you to the porn search engine NightSurf.com, which lists a bunch of porn sites that ostensibly match the term 'XFree86'. If you search for 'XFree86' on Google, however, it's clear that the top matching terms returned by a normal search, are XFree86 sites, are not a bunch of porn sites. MSN is apparently blocking the specific term 'XFree86' and not just filtering on something stupid like the 'X' or the 'Free', since you can search for 'XFree85' and 'XFree87' with no problem. And search terms like 'Linux', 'AOL' and 'Macintosh' are allowed, so at least MSN hasn't simply blacklisted all competitors' keywords as 'porn', but why would they be blocking 'XFree86'?

    Article here...


    Whoa. They're serious... Looks like MSN is blocking the search term XFree86 in an of itself. If you type XFree85 or XFree87, a regular search comes up without a hitch.
     
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  2. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    That's totally pathetic. Bah @ microsoft. I hate making short posts in this forum but that's all I can say really.

    Down with Microsoft, good to see they're feeling the heat from OS software :cooldude:
     
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  3. mclean007

    mclean007 Officious Bystander

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    Who actually uses search.msn.com anyway? As far as I'm concerned, if google doesn't find it, no one else will, and it's probably not worth finding anyway!
     
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    sheardjr Minimodder

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  5. Jaguar_Infinity

    Jaguar_Infinity Just some guy

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    Google is really the search engine of choice at the moment but this news does show the corperate mindset of MS. bad on them (even more)
     
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  6. Ubermich

    Ubermich He did it!

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    All I'm gonna say is I've switched. Last week when I was doing my bi-weekly-ish format, it formatted, installed windows, and on the FIRST BOOT (the setup boot), the kernel was toast. Changed my partitioning from windows =80% linux=20% to linux=90% windows=10%, been living in Linux and haven't had a problem yet.
    Microsoft is being petty. Lord forbid they make a product WORTH the price they charge.
     
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  7. kiljoi

    kiljoi I *am* a computer king.

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    Amen to that. This is really quite a pathetic business technique. And they wonder why everyone hates them.
     
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  8. [S]lammer

    [S]lammer Can't touch this!

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    my feelings exactly...
     
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  9. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! It works now!

    Well, look at what we have here... Search for XFree86 on MSN and the 1st result is the home page for XFree86 (www.xfree86.org). Friggin morons.
     
    Dad, 9 Mar 2004
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  10. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    Reminds me of the playground scenario at school when you're like 6 years old. the big bully goes a little too far and gets a good beating from everyone at once, and backs down. Hah! :hehe:

    *strokes his slackware + blackbox install*
     
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  11. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Looks like they've removed it now - i got this...

    [edit] buggery! looks like i should actually read the last posts in a thread :duh: [/edit]
     
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