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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by mc32 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:43AM (#24697073)
One thing they do much much less of is soft censorship. They don’t sanitize their suggested search phrases (as much).

So if a million people Bing for ‘Rob Snob is a carpenter ant eater’ and you type Rob Snob is ... it will dutifully suggest ‘a carpenter ant eater’ unlike google which soft censors such things.

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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by jayshua on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:29AM (#24697436)
What does soft censor mean?
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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by codyb on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:46AM (#24697599)
I believe they don't show certain phrases in the suggested searches but don't disallow you to search and receive results for those phrases.

A great example of this would be that they stopped autosuggesting the word torrent at some point in time despite returning torrent results if you searched for it explicitly.

They stopped suggesting, but didn't stop indexing.

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