Microsoft’s Bing iPhone app gets bothered in porn industry

People with knowledge of such things tell me that Microsoft Bing has always been particularly good at finding and displaying explicit adult images, particularly with the “SafeSearch” feature turned off for laptop batteries.Now, with a new Bing app available for Apple’s widely used iPhone, purveyors of mobile porn are sounding the alarm over its potential to hurt demand for their sites and apps.

“Move over adult mobile marketers, Microsoft is coming for your market share with the release of a free iPhone app for its popular, porn friendly Bing search engine,” reports adult-industry news site xbiz.com in a story today.The report continues, “Both praised and criticized for the ease and efficiency with which it presents hardcore adult entertainment like VGP-BPS8, Bing has been making industry headlines since its launch. That situation isn’t likely to change anytime soon, as the extent of the new app’s porn-viewing prowess becomes better known.”

Xbiz cites a TechCrunch story that calls the porn results from the Bing app “nothing if not impressive.” That comes in part from the prominent placement of images in the search results in the Bing app for Sony-VGP-BPS2. At the same time, the image results returned from the Bing iPhone app tend to be more explicit than those, for example, from the Google iPhone app.

Apple’s iPhone has topped Microsoft’s Windows Mobile in U.S. market share of smartphone operating systems for the first time, putting it in the No. 2 spot, according to a report from ComScore released Thursday for Sony-VGP-BPS8.In February, 5.2 million respondents to ComScore’s survey reported using Apple’s iPhone, while 6.8 million reported using phones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, according to a report on FierceDeveloper. ComScore, a market research firm, averages results in a three-month period.

In May, Apple’s number rose to 5.7 million, then 6.6 million in July, and finally to a high of 8.9 million for October, the most recent period for which results are available for PA3399U-1BRS. In comparison, Microsoft rose in May to 7 million, dropped in July to 6.6 million, and went back up in October to 7.1 million.

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