I searched for “fnord cakewalk” and got a pageful of results. It’s impossible that 2 generic words like “tank” and “man” give 0 results whatsoever for organic reasons.

I don’t think so, the substring should match right?

Something funny is happening

Search for tank man - 4 images

Search for tank man China - many images including the one we expect as the first result

Search for tank man again - Images blocked by safe search.

The same search gave me different results!

nah, it has results for "tank men", so absence of results altogether is definitely censorship

This query gave me 2 results, but others had random images (e.g. a happy seal), and in other places I see a white 'no preview available' icon, for instance on the Amnesty page that contains the image.

In general a less specific query should return more results. It seems like Bing is explicitly blocking that search.

I get the image, but I have to scroll some, and click on "Show more" even though there is only one row of results at a time...