The butterfly as protector (or petty censor?)

摘要

I first saw it on Slashdot: A Czech Web site reported that the MSN search function was blocking searches for the string "xfree86." If true, that would be stunningly pettyWell, it was true, but it looks like that is not all the butterfly's search engine is up to. I went to the search engine (http:// search.msn.com) to try for myself, and sure enough when I looked for "xfree86" I got back a message that said: "You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content." Searches for xfree~*, where~* was everything from 80 to 89 other than 86 produced reasonable results but where~* equaled 86 I got that same message.