How to Turn on Safe Search

While Google has put a lot of time and effort into their safe search feature on their search engine, there is still plenty of confusion about how it works and how to make sure it's implemented properly by parents and teachers in schools.

Rest assured that Google Safe Search is always on the highest level of safe search filtering when searches are done from this website, including our home page at SafeSearchKids.com. However, if you leave this site and conduct a search from Google.com, you will want to make sure your computer settings are set to "Strict Filtering" if you want to have the same safe results.

Google SafeSearch is activated on your computer on the preferences page at http://www.google.com/preferences

The default setting for most computers is the mid level security setting which only filters out inappropriate images from search term results. For parents who want to engage a stricter filtering system, you simply need to go to the preferences page and select the highest level of security. This setting filters out both illicit text, as well as images.

As mentioned on the very top of this page, using the search box above overrides all computer settings to ensure that any search done on this page utilizes Google's highest level of security: Strict Filtering (Filtering both explicit text and explicit images). Learn more about internet safety for kids.