Child-friendly Search Engine

Posted by on November 16th, 2006
Filed under: Sites for Kids.
Zoo.com

A new search engine just launched yesterday: Zoo.com

The folks at InfoSpace have created a search engine that produces child-friendly search results from Google, Yahoo!, and Wikipedia as well as several news sources. According to InfoSpace,

Unlike other engines that allow users to set filtering from high to none, Zoo.com has developed and uses a strict keyword filtering system to help restrict and filter out sexually explicit content. In addition to restricting more than 50,000 “adult” words, Zoo.com works with its partners to provide multiple layers of category based filtering designed to further weed out sexually explicit content while retaining results that may be appropriate for children. For example, a child using the search term “breast cancer” will get plenty of information, but the word “breast” delivers no results.

I’m already worried about Pooky’s future interactions on the internet and will definitely be bookmarking this site.

Check it out here.


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