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Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, which we’ve covered before, is getting some attention from bloggers all across the web for allegedly seeking out “dirty” content and bringing it to users saying “The search for xyz may return explicit adult content.”

In particular, CNET’s Molly Wood was making fun of the search engine for the fact that, upon image-searching her name, it returned that explicit results were under the results. As she says on CNET’s Webware blog, “I’ve run into a very specific issue with Bing that is both hilarious and indicative of the problem with overly broad filtering”, “it’s indicative that Bing’s got some pretty big kinks to work out”. And I agree.

Bing is already on Twitter, under the tag #bingfail, and some of the latest tweets include “Bing returned 8 results, none of which were relevant. Google returned 175. The entire 1st page was completely relevant” (robbyg) and “is amazed at how #bing fails.”I might have decide to switch to Bing if it didn’t look exactly like one of those annoying fake search engine sites” (whathappenedwas).

Bing is having a bit of a rough start- sorry Microsoft