The kid-safe directories
below use human beings to filter out sites that might be considered
objectionable for viewing by children.
Ask Jeeves For Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/
Ask
Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves
tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At
Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness.
Also, if Ask Jeeves cannot answer a question, it pulls results from
various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask Jeeves For Kids,
no site that is on the CyberPatrol block list is supposed to be listed.
KidsClick!
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.
Looksmart's Kids Directory
http://search.netnanny.com/?pi=nnh3&ch=kids
The Kids Directory is a
listing of over 20,000 kid friendly websites that were hand picked by
employees of Looksmart subsidiary Net Nanny and vetted for quality.
Looksmart also offers a safe search of the entire web, using Net Nanny software to filter Wisenut search results, as well as a free toolbar that uses the same service.
Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com/
Yahoo
for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be
appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not
bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from
within the Yahooligan listings. This prevents possibly objectionable
sites from slipping onto the screen. Additionally, adult-oriented
banner advertising will not appear within the service. Yahooligans is
the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996.
Most major search engines
get their listings by crawling the web, rather than through human
review and categorization, as with the sites listed above. This means
its easy for possibly objectionable material to appear in search
results.
As a solution, most major
search engines offer some type of filtering ability. It's meant to keep
out porn content and other material that most might not want children
to encounter.
These filters are not
perfect. Some material does get past them, and some safe material may
get filtered out. To understand more about this, see the
Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter article that ran in our
SearchDay newsletter in April 2003.
Below are tips on enabling porn filters for major search engines:
AllTheWeb: Use the Basic Settings page to enable the Offensive Content Filter option. The only
works for searches in English.
AltaVista: Use the Family Filter Setup page.
AOL Search: Doesn't appear to offer a filter, but enabling Parental Controls might have an impact on web search matches.
Ask Jeeves: Use options for Content Filtering on the Your Settings page or try Ask Jeeves For Kids, listed
above.
Google: See the SafeSearch help page for instructions on setting up filtering on a permanent or as-needed
basis.
HotBot: Use the Block Offensive Content section of the Filter Preferences page. Note that you may need to set this
again if you change from using the default "HotBot" search engine that's offered.
LookSmart:
LookSmart has never accepted adult content for listing within its directory results. However, obscure queries
might bring these up in the crawler-based results that are sometimes provided.
Lycos: Use the Adult Filter section of the Advanced Search Filters page.
MSN Search: Use the Safe Search Filter on the Settings page.
Teoma: Teoma doesn't appear to offer a filter.
Yahoo: Set the SafeSearch Filter option via the
Search Preferences page.
Filtering software works
across the entire web, not just for search results. Most filtering
software provides a fair amount of control for parents to determine
what it and is not allowable content. Cyber Patrol and Net Nanny are
two of the most popular of these programs.
Cyber Patrol
http://www.cyberpatrol.com/
Cyber Patrol relies on
an extensive categorized list of web sites to allow parents to
determine which sites are allowable or not. Content is sourced by a
team of 40+ professional researchers, automated tools and customer
submissions to gather the most widely accessed content on the Internet.
These lists are updated frequently. Parents can also control whether
individual web sites are allowed or not.
The program can filter
web pages, newsgroups, chat rooms and other internet resources, and can
be used to limit online time, create user logs and so on.
Net Nanny
http://www.netnanny.com/
Looksmart acquired Net Nanny in April 2004 and added porn-free web search
to the product shortly thereafter. The product provides a wide variety
of parental controls, including blocking content based on content, URL,
or ratings.
In addition to blocking
web pages, the program allows selective blocking of access to chat,
instant messaging, internet games and newsgroups. The program can also
be configured to prevent illegal downloading of copyrighted or obscene
material.
For more filtering software programs, see Yahoo's list of blocking and filtering software.
ALA Great Web Site for Kids
http://www.ala.org/greatsites
An organized directory of sites selected by members of the American Library Association using rigorous evaluation guidelines to assure high quality content, authority and "strength of character."
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Over
14,000 sites have been classified into a directory, specifically
organized for teachers, students and parents. Information can be found
by browsing or searching.
Diddabdoo
http://www.dibdabdoo.com/
Billed as an ad free, non-commercial directory of web sites designed for child-safe searching.
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Over
500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with
the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring
1996.
Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
Reference
provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and
information oriented around the needs of children.
Family Source
http://www.family-source.com/
This focused crawler-based service has indexed nearly 1 million kid-friendly URLs.
FirstGov for Kids
http://www.kids.gov/
From the U.S. Federal
Citizen Information Center, this directory provides links to
government-related kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites
from other organizations, grouped by subject.
Kids Search Tools
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.
SearchEdu.com
http://www.searchedu.com/
Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.
Teach-nology.com
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.
TekMom's Search Tools for Students
http://www.tekmom.com/search/
All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.
ThinkQuest Library
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/
A free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition.
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