Clicking the images tab probably explains why. There are many pictures of very young girls in various states of undress.
[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-c...
Is it picking up VK profile pictures? Sort of reminds me of myspace but with, err, Russian sensibilities. I also tried it with Bing and got literally the exact same results.
Google is definitely different, it shows mostly logos instead of photos.
I never used VK but I got the impression it is a real social network, for better or for worse. Should Bing drop them from its index? Now I'm morbidly curios what kind of weird crap searches of social networks from other cultures might dredge up. Like a Chinese VK.
However I'm seeing lots of slightly uncomfortable pictures of young girls (not porn, but didn't want to scroll too far because it felt like there could be some mixed in) and tanks in the image search. This doesn’t change noticeably using the three strictness settings.
When you want to add a friend on VK, you have to ask them for things like city, school, and age just to narrow down the results!
BTW, NSFW warning!
If I go on Yandex and search "img " and then a bunch of random numbers, I get almost all pictures of young women, and many pictures of underage girls in provocative poses.
This sort of thing does happen. A few months ago, people discovered similar results on Google Images(!) by searching "TV television and film". The results were being pulled from a 4chan archive of the board with that name.
I don't think it's related to the "VK" web results problem though. If you search "VK," or "VK!" or VK with any punctuation, all the web results come up as expected.