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Anonymised search engine page found on 'kid-friendly' search site


Jasper_The_Rasper
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See Also - Say hello to Kiddle: the child-protecting search engine
 
11 Apr 2016 at 10:05, Jane Fae                                                           

 When it comes to seeking a magic bullet that will protect children from the evils of the internet, the first casualty is all too often common sense. So it appears in respect of the latest in a long line of child-friendly projects – Kiddle – which launched itself on to the scene a little over a month ago as a self-proclaimed “child-friendly search engine”.
 
Because behind the cuddly front end and the claims that key search results were handpicked by editors lay a rather more awkward reality: that Kiddle also allowed access to a service that allows users to search the internet anonymously – and in the process, it certainly circumvented the Google safe search standard, much touted as the reason why Kiddle was safe for children in the first place.
 
Nor did it take much effort to work this out. A computer games programmer, known within the industry as Delia Venus Wyn, explained:
 
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"Common Sense" is the key however children at the early age will react instead of thinking things out. Now this child friendly search engine makes sense hopefully will help. The children are important and have to be protected.

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 Excellent article Jasper! I did read this wrong..This is a bad thing isn't it?

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Am still dubious and believe that at the end of the day whatever bells & whilstle are put in place to safeguard children the basics are down to the parents in terms of teaching their kids 'safe browsing' & Internet usage. 

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I think you are 100% right Baldrick.

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