Microsoft, wtf?

[Klaus]

On the anniversary day of the Tiananmen massacre:

I'm SICK of the big corporations, Hollywood, and many politicians who kiss China's ass. This is an evil regime, and we don't need their business, their products, or their approval.

[Loki]

I went to bing and got random images but when I added Tiananmen Square I got the real images

[Doctor Phibes]

If you don't like Bing, you can always write your own shit search engine that nobody uses, you know.

Google gives a shit-ton of tank man images.

[Mik]

They've already changed it. I just got lots of references to Tank Man, and the first result was a story about how it tuned up nothing on Bing.

[Copper]


[Axtremus]

Google, Yahoo!, Bing, DuckDuckGo ... all returned results about “tank man” and Tien An Men incident just fine, though I only tried regular web search, not image search specifically.

Also tried China-based search engines BaiDu and SoHu, both returned no result on the topic (as expected).

[Axtremus]

@Klaus, is there a search engine popular in Germany (or Western Europe) but not popular in the USA that you have tried this on? If so, how did it go?

[89th]

@doctor-phibes said in Microsoft, wtf?:

If you don't like Bing, you can always write your own shit search engine that nobody uses, you know.

Lolz

[Loki]

Microsoft wrote it was due to “accidental human error”.

Define accidental human error. LOL

[Klaus]

@loki said in Microsoft, wtf?:

Microsoft wrote it was due to “accidental human error”.

Define accidental human error. LOL

I saw that, but this wasn’t a random typo or bug. In the best case, it was a single employee who wanted a few minutes of fame. It could also be that they accidentally activated a feature that was supposed to work only in some countries.

[Axtremus]

@klaus said in Microsoft, wtf?:

It could also be that they accidentally activated a feature that was supposed to work only in some countries.

Knowing how big software shops typically deploy their software across multiple cloud installations across the globe, I deem this to be the most likely explanation.