Safe Search

SafeSearch is a feature provided by search engines to filter out explicit or inappropriate content from search results. It helps create a safer browsing experience by blocking or hiding potentially offensive or explicit images, videos, and websites. The openness of the Internet can be something of a double-edged sword. Although the free nature of the web fosters creativity, thought, and access to uncensored information, it also allows the manifestation of potentially unsafe content. It’s an open secret that pornography, gore, extreme violence, and other graphic content are accessible with just a few deliberate or accidental clicks.

Such content can be harmful to children. Exposure to violent or pornographic media can negatively impact the psychological and physical development of people with growing, elastic, and impressionable minds that lack the maturity to process extreme content. Such content can also be distasteful to many adults. Policing the web isn’t the solution, of course. Not only is shutting down every website that publishes explicit content impossible, but it raises questions about freedom of expression. The mere definition of distasteful content varies from person to person. It’s easy to see why the Internet is a powerful educational resource. It offers children of all ages the most relevant, up-to-date, engaging, and fastest learning and research methods.

Instead of blocking people from the Internet or technology, parents, teachers, and administrators use SafeSearch settings on Google to filter explicit search results. With SafeSearch, you can stop yourself, your child, or your student from seeing inappropriate content from Google search results. For instance, with SafeSearch on, users are less likely to find explicit content when searching for words like “hooter.” SafeSearch isn’t without its shortcomings, though. For one, it’s not a comprehensive security tool. That’s why, in addition to learning how to use SafeSearch settings, people download a utility like?Browser Guard?to block unsafe content.

Google SafeSearch is an automated filter that blocks explicit content such as pornography, violence, and gore from appearing in search results. Google SafeSearch only filters Google search results and not other search engines. It also doesn’t prevent users from opening bookmarks, links, and emails that lead to explicit content. Google SafeSearch filters aren’t completely accurate, either. While SafeSearch is strictly a Google feature, other search engines and apps can have their own safety features. You can activate SafeSearch for the following:.

1. Personal accounts
2. Browsers
3. Kid’s devices and accounts through the Family Link app
4. Workplace devices and networks
5. School devices and networks.