Just another indicator that it's bad form to have a one-size-fits-all approach to filtering/sorting categories of content broadly.
Another blatant example? Go search for 'japanese' on DuckDuckGo or Bing with Safe Search turned off and observe the NSFW stuff you get as top results versus what's on Google.
Interesting. For a bunch of different regions ("swedish", "russian", "korean", "brazilian") the results on the image page are partially undressed women, but nothing NSFW. For "asian" there's a bunch of nudity but nothing pornographic. It's only for "japanese" that I start getting porn results, and nothing but porn results, in fact.
Interestingly "norwegian" gets me a bunch of pictures of people in traditional garb from far-right websites. "indian" is clean but weirdly marriage focused.
If you change your region on DuckDuckGo to Japan, you actually get some clean results at the top before you get to the porn.
I've yet to find anything racy for English speaking or western European countries (other than Sweden).
It also depends on what people mean by partially undressed.
Growing up in NYC in the 2000s school dress codes would often treat anything spaghetti strap or with bare shoulder as partially undressed, and the administrators definitely used that language to describe offending outfits.
I just tried searching for 'japanese' on DuckDuckGo with safe search turned off and only the last result on first page was NSFW. I tried the same search on Bing and did not get any NSFW on the first page.
For image search? I've verified myself that this regularly returns nearly exclusively NSFW thumbnails via a variety of methods that anonymize my identity, and have also had acquaintances verify that they see the same thing. It's a big enough sample size to suggest there's a problem that needs to be solved.
Following the payment blockade on pornhub, some players in the industry are doing this kind of policing themselves. For example visit xvideos and you’ll find many words shortened to a single letter and also censored on search so they return no results.
Another blatant example? Go search for 'japanese' on DuckDuckGo or Bing with Safe Search turned off and observe the NSFW stuff you get as top results versus what's on Google.