Microsoft's new search engine Bing is censoring the word 'sex'. According to some readers you get a message saying the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.

In other words there is no button to press that says you are over the age of six and can handle words like sex. However this form of censorship of the world's most popular search term is used only in India. Yep, in the US they are able to search for the term,
but the Indians, have obviously bred enough in the eyes of Microsoft.

Punters in India could always just change their country preference from India to the US to get these search results but many will not think of it. Instead they will go and search in Google which does not have right wing Christian censorship standards on its site.

Quite what stunt Microsoft is pulling here is anyone's guess. Some are suggesting that it is part of an attempt by Redmond to pilot some form of web censorship and see if anyone complains. Others just think it is a stuff up which will soon be corrected.

After all Microsoft cannot afford to censor web search and make its rival look good.