AIBU -first time using Bing, typed in "how to" - WARNING their predictive fill-in came up with suggestion about child murder [[Edited by MNHQ to add: MYSTERY SOLVED, MINECRAFT THING]]

[Ijsbear]

This was the very first time I used the Bing search entry. I typed in "how to" meaning to say "how to find info on the ESA" and predictive text came up with this.

For a first time use of Bing this is awful. I'm just very glad my young kids weren't around to see this.

I have actually reported it to microsoft and their suggestion was to put "safe search" mode on. It should have been on automatically imo.

Basically this is a warning to people to be careful if they use Bing to put the Safe Search on first! (I'm not going to be changing my search engine after all)

@ofwarren

I got how to draw and then how to get free robux which isn't surprising as my kids use it. Who else uses your computer because it's based on an algorithm.

That's what I get and I don't have kids or use roblox, they're probably just the most common searches.

Does someone else use the laptop OP?

If it's coming up as a suggestion from the algorithm then that means the person who has searched it hasn't cleared the history. Therefore, you should be able to find out what they were searching for.

I got 'how to make pancakes'.

Its your computer. If i type how to kill on bing it doesnt mention a child at all

OP have you been looking at crime novels, crime programmes, storylines in soaps, children's clothes, children's bedding (as examples) and the algorithms have muddled these searches up perhaps??

I use DuckDuckGo now - not Google anymore because of who funds it - Bing isn't great imo.

Anyone writing a book in the crime genre in your household, OP. That’s the least disturbing explanation I can think of

Perhaps related to the awful case in the papers, the person recently sentenced? a have you been reading about that, OP?

I got how to...
draw
get free robux
take a screenshot
make slime
make pancakes

Given that so many people got draw, the algorithm can't be that personalised...

Mines came up....

How to ..

make french toast 🤣😂

I get

How to draw
How to get free robux (which I've never even heard of)
How to screenshot (which I have googled recently)
How to make slime (definitely no previous history for that)

next on the list was...

lose weight fast .. 🤔 its been reading my mind darned thing 😂

@therocinante

Given the Minecraft search (bottom, about villagers - which can be adult or child), I'd say the top search is actually something one of your kids has searched for, hopefully in relation to Minecraft...

Optifine at the bottom is also a Minecraft program. Apparently there are baby zombies in the game which are difficult to kill so it may be that.

mcmobs.fandom.com/wiki/Baby_Zombie#:~:text=Baby%20Zombies%20might%20be%20more,easily%20kill%20a%20baby%20zombie.

I’ve never used bing before so just tried it now and this is the result

I don't use bing on home devices but it's in my work laptop (that's not been switched on for a week - I'm in AL!)

But I agree it's usually based on pervious searches.

Although lockdown with a teen DS may have caused bing to suggest that to me if it has ears

Never used Bing before and I have the same results as everyone else, in the same order.

I haven't ever used bing before and get the same results as @ColinKnocksTwoPence

How to draw as well!

I wonder if op is going to come back?

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

Isn't it all to do with algorithms based on previous searches and language used on that device?

I most certainly promise I have -never- looked anything like that up! or remotely near.

@Ijsbear

This was the very first time I used the Bing search entry. I typed in "how to" meaning to say "how to find info on the ESA" and predictive text came up with this.

For a first time use of Bing this is awful. I'm just very glad my young kids weren't around to see this.

I have actually reported it to microsoft and their suggestion was to put "safe search" mode on. It should have been on automatically imo.

Basically this is a warning to people to be careful if they use Bing to put the Safe Search on first! (I'm not going to be changing my search engine after all)

It doesn't do this by accident, it predicts based on prior searches.

Create a child's account for them to log into the laptop separately.

@therocinante

Given the Minecraft search (bottom, about villagers - which can be adult or child), I'd say the top search is actually something one of your kids has searched for, hopefully in relation to Minecraft...

expires in relief now -this- makes more sense .... the older one does play minecraft ..... all the same, deeply disturbing. I'll be having a chat with him.

@Ijsbear

I most certainly promise I have -never- looked anything like that up! or remotely near.

Did you read any of the replies saying nobody else had that or that that it could be related to Minecraft? Does anyone else in the house play it?

Erm yeah, looking at the other searches it's one of your kids. Time for a chat!

thanks therocinante and slashlover, the mystery is almost certainly solved. He was complaining at length about the baby zombies in minecraft.

I was horrified ...

I most certainly promise I have -never- looked anything like that up! or remotely near

someone in your house has though