Option to block all search engines except Bing (or higher fidelity search engine blocking).
Bing hosts explicit images in a way that OpenDNS can block them. Therefore, I would like a way to easily block unsafe search engines (ie. at minimum Google), not just ALL search engines. It's nearly impossible to block all of google.com without blocking all search engines because of all the country specific google sites.
Please create another category separating safe from unsafe search engines, or separate catagories for google, bing, yahoo and other, so administrators have more control.
I would think this would be very easy to do.
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Did you know that you can also block search engines, but selectively allow bing.com by adding the following to your whitelist:
bing.com
mm.bing.net (explicit images are on explicit.bing.net).**may need live.com as well to be added
This will block all search engines except Bing, while leaving bing explicit images blocked.
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Thank you I didn't realize this would work, it solves the specific Bing problem.
For the larger problem, if OpenDNS were explicit about blocking specific major search engines, it could create a virtuous cycle where big search engines are competing to be "safe" by properly supporting filtering. If it were known that 80% of OpenDNS users block Google, and not Bing, Google might take notice and correct theie technology to reverse this trend. Yes, these stats are totally made up, but OpenDNS is in a position to give this a try. This could be one of the greatest ecosystem changes OpenDNS could impact.
I'd bet that Google Image Search is by far the largest porn site on the planet. Look at the number of forum entries in OpenDNS for blocking it. I'm using Google as an example, but all the others would follow (or lead) to compete.
Maybe I need to change the title of this "Idea" to properly describe it.
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