As a reader of The Inquirer has noticed, "Microsoft's MSN Messenger won't let users send a message containing the word www.scroogle.org to anyone."

Scroogle is the website that lets you do Google searches without having everything you search for permanently recorded.

I've tested it with a friend of mine on Windows Live Messenger (which also blocks it out), and it does allow you to write "scroogle.org" and you can split the word into for instance "scoo" and "gle".

But that doesn't change the fact, that it's weird, considering that you can send links to site containing porn, illegal music and software and so on…

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Tags: Messenger, Microsoft

Messenger, Microsoft Comments 4 Jan 9th, 2007

4 Responses to “You can't say www.scroogle.org on Microsoft's messenger”

1. ffextensionguru Says:
   January 9th, 2007 at 21:44

   Out of curiosity can you even go to scroogle.org with version 7 of MS Internet Exploiter?

2. Lars K Jensen Says:
   January 9th, 2007 at 21:54

   I just tested it — and yes you can

   // Lars

3. Daniel Brandt Says:
   January 10th, 2007 at 02:20

   The explanation that makes most sense is now posted at the bottom of:
   http://www.scroogle.org/scget.html

4. Lars K Jensen Says:
   January 10th, 2007 at 09:50

   Hi Daniel

   Thank you very much for the explanation, it makes much more sense that Microsoft is blocking ".scr" instead of "www.scroogle.org".

   // Lars

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