Security News > 2021 > June > Notepad++ drops Bing after "tank man" censorship fiasco
The latest Notepad++ release has removed support for Bing search from the app after the "Tank man" fiasco Microsoft had to deal with on Friday afternoon.
"Microsoft Bing is removed from Notepad++ settings for Search on Internet command, due to its poor reliability," the Notepad++ v8 announcement reads.
Don Ho, the creator of Notepad++, one of the most popular open-source Notepad replacements, revealed on GitHub that the motivation behind this decision is Bing censoring results instead of doing "Its job."
"When a search engine does the censorship instead of its job, the search result loses its quality and it's not reliable anymore," Don Ho said in the GitHub commit removing Bing support.
"Hence, Microsoft Bing is removed from Notepad++ for"Search on Internet" command.
As first noticed by Shane Huntley, Director of Software Engineering at Google's Threat Analysis Group, Bing would not return any image or video results when searching for "Tank man" in the US, UK, France, and other countries worldwide.