Web Content Filtering Company Bloxx Adds Bing to SafeSearch List

Leading the Charge in Protecting Bing Users’ from Nasty Search Engine Results

Bloxx, the enterprise Web filtering vendor, today announced that Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has been added to its SafeSearch list. Bloxx customers have the option to enforce the SafeSearch facility on search engines which automatically overrides users attempts to change search engine settings. With this option in force, IT Managers can fully protect their users’ from harmful and inappropriate search engine results when using Bing’s search facilities.

A controversial new feature available to users of Bing is its video search facility which lets users view online videos in preview mode. Without actually accessing the website hosting the video, users can potentially preview pornographic or other offensive videos by hovering the cursor over a thumbnail. This bypasses corporate and parental web control filters.

Bloxx’s SafeSearch facility has been universally expanded to incorporate Bing and assure continued safe searching for users. Unlike other web filtering solutions, customers do not have to impose a complete ban of Bing in order to stop users viewing inappropriate video search results. For customers that use Bloxx’s SafeSearch enforcement, it will now block users from previewing, accessing and viewing offensive content presented to them by Bing’s video search facility, ensuring the highest protection for users.

Bing was launched by Microsoft at the beginning of June and is looking to tip Google off the search engine top-spot. It is reported that in the first two weeks of launch Bing has already bypassed Yahoo to become the second most used search engine in the world.

The availability of this update is currently being rolled out to all Bloxx customers.

About Bloxx Tru-View Technology

Bloxx Tru-View Technology uses internationally patent pending technology to analyse and categorise web pages quicker and more accurately than other web filters which use manual URL classification and keyword scoring alone.

Using advanced intelligent identification and analysis techniques, Tru-View Technology provides instant classification of web content as soon as it is accessed, even if the content has not been seen by anyone before.

Bloxx Tru-View Technology helps organisations proactively manage users’ access to web content which might lower productivity, expose the organisation to risk and liability or pose a network security threat.

An estimated 1.5 million + users already benefit from enhanced security and performance with low administration and no cost per user charges. Additional protection is provided via anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-phishing functionality.

About Bloxx
Headquartered in the UK with sales offices in Holland, the USA and Australia, Bloxx offers appliance-based web filtering for medium and large organisations in both the business and public sectors. Bloxx has achieved unrivalled sales growth year-on-year to become the preeminent web-filtering solution provider. Leading UK investment groups such as Archangel Investments Ltd and Braveheart Investment Group Plc have invested in Bloxx.

Editorial Contacts

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Tel: +44 (0)1506 426976

Email: pr {at} bloxx(.)com