I thought it was maybe due to the suffix being problematic, but "torpedo" shows up without issue. Tried with safe search on/moderate and off.

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[–] 58 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

My guess is that it’s an offshoot of the Scunthorpe Problem. My theory (without hard evidence) is that Bing/DDG have a blacklist of terms to completely filter out from results, but a whitelist of words that contain those terms which are exceptions to the filter. This would explain why “torpedo” is ok but less common terms like “Sharpedo” wouldn’t be individually flagged as ok. You’d have to find other examples with other blocked words to test this idea.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This crossed my mind too, but I wanted to verify. I'm not sure what other words would be good testers, but if you happen to find some, I'd love to know!

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  • [–] 76 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    Duckduckgo retrive his results from bing btw

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Good to know. Still doesn’t explain why Google behaves but DDG doesn’t.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Because Bing is owned by Microsoft, ddg uses bing by default. So if bing doesn't load something ddg won't either.

    Do the search in ddg again but with the Google flag.

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Can I find images of this Pokemon? Yes. I'm wondering why this is happening. Trying to satisfy my curiosity.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Maybe “sharPedo” (erroneously) triggers some CSAM rule for Bing? Shorthand for sharing pedophilia?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I had that thought, too, but "torpedo" and "pedometer" came back without issue.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That’s because they’re known words to exclude from the filter. Nobody’s flagged up sharpedo to their CSAM filter team yet.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago*

    So interestingly, slight misspellings will show the pokemon with a "Showing results for Sharpedo", but if you click on that link the results will disappear. I also can't find any other blocked examples with different made up words.

    It's weird, like it has been manually blocked

    Someone should send this post to some tech news/blog and have them look into it 😄

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Because Bing is owned by Microsoft.

    You are trying to make sense of a Microsoft product. Even they dont know how to make work so why are you trying to make sense of it not working?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You’re not even exaggerating. I was trying to figure out how to let my son play Minecraft online. His account is a minor account, and I have it in my family unit with my Microsoft account. The help page in Minecraft says to enable online play in the online privacy and security settings for his account, and as far as I can tell, no such settings exist.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    This is pretty sadmusing.

    "Sharpe do" also works in a similar fashion.

    If you click on "only show results for [not sharpedo]" the results vary, but usually there's one or more sharpedos in there.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting that sharkpedo (how I thought it was spelt) works in DDG (as other users say DDG is bing).

    I think the same as others. Just a shitty word filter in bing - word filtetes never work consistantly.

    Knownword-pedo works (mostly) but not always. Treepedo works. Catpedo dosnt.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If I put jpg after then it works

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I found also typing "sharkpedo" works. Still doesn't explain why Google behaves but DDG doesn't.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Does it happen with other pokemon? Maybe Nintendo had images deindexed for some reason.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Letting you know that Kagi seems to have good results if that helps.

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    Bing/DDG have a lot of weird censorship.

    "Shapedo" and "Sharkpedo" both work btw.

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