A stir rippled through the blogosphere in response to a TechCrunch article stating that ads for Microsoft's Bing search engine appeared when people Googled the word "pornography," implying that Microsoft had purchased the word for advertising purposes.
Microsoft denies this, saying they did NOT buy pornography, the ad appeared because of key words "free videos", porn is evil, yadda yadda.
In one nice aside, according to CNet, Bing has a great video search engine which is perfect for finding porn. Nice tip!
Microsoft runs into another porn snafu:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100703612.html
Posted by: Rebecca R | October 08, 2009 at 02:18 PM