Setting Parental Controls In The Major Search Engines:

Most search engines today in clean their listings by sending a search engine spider to crawl the Web, unlike others that use live human beings to review and categorize submitted pages.

The downside here is that it makes it easy for inappropriate or objectionable material to up here in your child's search results when using the Web.

To alleviate this problem most major search engines now offer some sort of filtering ability as a solution. These filters are meant to keep out things like pornography and other inappropriate material that parents don't want their children exposed to.

Unfortunately try as they might, the search engine filters filters are not always perfect. Occasionally inappropriate material will scoot past them while some legitimate content gets filtered out.

So here are some tips that will let you in able these Parental control filters for most of the Major search engines.

AllTheWeb: Use the "Basic Settings" page to turn on the "Offensive Content Filter" option.

AltaVista: Use the Family Filter Setup page to set up filters for this search engine

AOL Search: Doesn't offer a filter on their web-based search engine, but you have an AOL account enabling "Parental Controls" features have an impact on web search matches while AOL

Ask Jeeves: Use options for "Content Filtering" on the "Your Settings page" to set filters here or use Ask Jeeves For Kids.

Google: Read the "SafeSearch" help page at Google for simple set up instructions to enable filtering..

HotBot: Offers a "Block Offensive Content" area on their "Filter Preferences" page.

LookSmart: Fortunately "LookSmart" has never accepted adult content for listing within its directory results. However, obscure queries may deliver up in the crawler-based adult - related results.

MSN Search: While no filter is offered, MSN Search may warn you that "You have entered a search term that is likely to return adult content" if you enter pornographer related terms. That prevents you from immediately seeing possibly objectionable content.

However, results are still offered, if you choose to go beyond this warning. These results come from an adult search engine that MSN Search is partnered with.

Teoma: Teoma doesn't appear to offer a filter at this time this article was written.

Yahoo: Choose the "SafeSearch" Filter option via the "Search Preferences" page.


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