From TechCrunch, today:
…but one thing about Bing really stands out – it may be the best porn search engine ever created (see Badda-Bing Indeed). In private conversations Microsoft employees always said that the porn search feature was an unintended byproduct of good video search. But we always wondered if that was true.
Anyway, in May we noticed Bing ads on Google, which seemed a little ironic to us given how seriously the two companies compete with each other.
But one thing we didn’t notice until now is that Bing is also advertising on Google for the query “pornography.”
Which in our opinion removes all doubt about Bing’s intentions. There’s nothing wrong with being a good porn search engine, in our opinion. And why not go ahead and advertise it to the world.
Discovered via a TechCrunch employee who has asked to remain anonymous….
Check out the full story here.
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