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mark kandianis <[email protected]>
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Hot news! and i mean HOT HOT HOT. (must be i'm capitalizing!) [] <http://slashdot.org///yro.slashdot.org/>Your Rights Online: MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? <http://slashdot.org///slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=153> censorship Posted by <mailto:[email protected]>simoniker on Wednesday March 03, @06:15PM from the because-they-made-a-mistake? dept. <http://www.peacefire.org/>Peacefire writes "Thomas Shaddack spotted this on <http://www.root.cz/>http://www.root.cz/ (in Czech) -- if you go to <http://search.msn.com/>http://search.msn.com/ and <http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=XFree86&FORM=SMCRT>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 <http://www.google.com/search?q=xfree86>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'?" the guys, i love those guys!, at /., are reporting the latest in ultimate fud! I tried it myself on google, dogpile, lycos, ask and netscape, xfree86 still works. msn does not. man, i'm loving it ;-) mark.