Well Google has been trying to become more safe for families. But with their latest Google Video problem and a new problem uncovered for Google Suggest, what will they do?
Google Blogoscoped reported that when you type the letters “ple” into the search box, the top result is unexpected. If you want you can search for yourself or incase they changed it, here is a screenshot:
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o well once again google the one and only real good search has shown us that it is not safe at all to let our kids use the inter without a adult behind them
i think by now we would have got something that is well comes with google or msn to stop all this kind of poo
maybe one day it will be safe to let our kids use the internet but for now i really wouldent let my baby use it on her own thats for sure
A good point, they should not release services which show results which you would not want kids to see when they are in school and doing research.
If Google is going to be the new commonly used Search Engine, they should at least fix up their services.
I also discovered if you type in “suc” the bottom result isn’t exactly child friendly either…
I can just imagine a kid “Ok, gotta look up successful presidents… S… U… C… What the?”
That’s awesome.
This is not the case, they have plenty of premeire search engines… well not engines but regulated search sites such as Yahoo!, AOL’s, Dogpile, among many others. Google is a search engine devoid of parental control for the purpose that America is filled with ultraconservatives but aside from that if you don’t want your child using google as a search engine you have the power to regulate it from your own home and block google.com and allow your child to use alternatives.
It’s interesting. 9 Months ago i would not have thought much of this. I’m about to be a father and it’s made me think, how much of the internet is ‘bad’. How easy is if for kids to stumble onto this.
Google must do something about this - people looking for pron know how to find it without google, so we don’t need it in our search results..
Jamie that is true and that brings me back to my first point:
Schools always use Google to help find research, but even if they won’t use Google Suggest, kids will find out, think it’s great and start using it.
Before this happens, Google Suggest should fix this, but if they do, there is no point in the program since it is supposed to display suggestions based on the greater amount of what people search.
Why do people always want to surrender their rights and responsibilities of being an active parent? There is no way google can fix this nor should they. Parents HAVE to take responsibility for the actions, education and responses their children should have to such information. When we educate we not only teach them facts, or how to learn, but we teach them how to interact with the environment within which they must function.
Examples: Watching animals have sex with your children and having them ask, “Daddy, what are they doing?” Hearing public arguments with very inappropriate and unpleasant language. Or perhaps the most common is when you lose your cool as a parent and either verbally or physically abuse your child and then have to explain YOUR behavior.
Tim, I apologize for parsing the first sentence of your 2nd paragraph wrong, but I think it’s a good example of the point I’m about to make.
Filtering information on the internet is not at all easy. I use a program at home called DansGuardian, and it regularly filters out information that isn’t harmful. The most common case is when I am looking for information on Youth Ministry (My current occupation), and a relevant site has the word “teen” in it too much. One cannot look at only words, and determine the meaning behind it.
In your 2nd paragraph, it could be read as you watching animals having sex with your children. That’s much more disturbing than you meant it. But through context, I determined which meaning it is. Unfortunately, there are still situations where it absolutely requires a human to determine context. The multitude of combinations of words, as well as the misspelling of words and different forms of the same words make it nearly impossible to sort it out. I think Google does a great job of it, most of the time. But still, some stuff slips through, and some stuff gets misplaced.
Another analogy is that it is like airport security. Someone decided to try to smuggle a bomb on a plane in their shoes, so the security people try to take away that vector by having people take their shoes off. More recently, they have eliminated liquids as a vector. These isolated cases may have been weaknesses, but they are part of a larger screening problem.
For Google, it seems that these topics are not vectors that they have considered before. They will almost certainly block these ones, then try to fix their algorithm to catch it. I doubt that it will ever be perfect.