Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang raised the ire of porn fans last month when he, seemingly apropos of nothing, declared that “I believe rampant access to pornography is a real problem,” as AVN.com reported. In Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Yang did it again—albeit this time, it seemed, inadvertently.
In a discussion of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies, Yang countered by saying that competition among the companies may help solve many of the problems that Warren’s breakup plan would address.
And in that discussion, Yang took a shot at the Microsoft-owned search engine Bing, as The Daily Dot reported.
“There’s a reason why no one is using Bing today,” Yang suddenly declared. “Sorry Microsoft, it’s true.”
While it is technically untrue that “no one” uses Bing, the search engine ranks a distant second to Google in market share among the top search sites. While Google commands 92.6 percent of search traffic, Bing holds just 2.34 percent—followed by the venerable Yahoo! site, with 1.64 percent.
So who comprises that 2.34 percent of internet search users who rely on Bing? According to PC World, the answer is porn fans, because “Bing is the porn search engine of choice.”
According to a 2014 report by The Daily Dot, Google’s updates to its “safe search” option made porn results much more difficult to turn up with a Google search. Not so for Bing.
“Unlike Google, which requires you to type insanely specific keywords to get the kind of results you’re looking for, Bing’s video search immediately calls up a well-organized series of short links and related search terms along with your search results,” The Daily Dot report said.
When the online publication ran searches on the two search engines for the term “blow job,” a Google search returned a series of somewhat off-color but largely “safe for work” memes.
But the Bing search turned up a series of images that showed, well, blow jobs. The Bing search also included helpful links to a series of related search terms, including, “Blowjob swallow,” “Blowjob Party,” and “Kim Kardashian blowjob.”
While Yang’s putdown of Bing may have irked porn fans who rely on the otherwise little-used search engine, the candidate’s unexpected statement served an useful purpose as well.
“If you didn’t know about Bing’s porn prowess, now you do,” The Daily Dot wrote. “Who said the debates weren’t educational?”
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