Microsoft: Do as I say, not as I do.

This is amusing: earlier this week, Google expanded its transparency further, by letting us know who had requested URLs to be removed from search results due to copyright violations, how many requests were made, and their disposition.

It turns out, while Microsoft spent time and money searching for such offending URLs and then forwarding them to Google to remove, Microsoft failed to follow through in some cases, with its own search engine, Bing.

So to help Microsoft out, I thought I'd give them an almost-ISO9001-compliant protocol:

1. Find copyright-violating content using Bing.
2. Compile list of URLs of violating content.
3. Remove them from Bing.
4. Screen the list of URLs on other search engines.
5. Send list of URLs to other search engines.

A couple of million URL requests, and you'd think they'd have it figured out by now.

Side note: I was cropping the list of copyright owners, when I noticed "BangBros"...no such thing as modesty, I guess.  After a little research of some of the names on the list, it turns out there are quite a few porn businesses upset about the spread of their copy-protected porn on the internet.


To think, it was just 25 years ago when pornographers were hunted down by the US Attorney General Edwin Meese.  Today, pornographers are hunting down individuals who watch their content for free.