News Item: : Family-friendly Google searches
(Category: Misc)
Posted by Scott (Admin)
Thursday, September 28 2006 - 12:48:29PM
Google is a powerful search engine that helps you find just about anything. The only problem is that sometimes you can accidentally find undesirable sites among
the useful ones you intended to find.
The clever folks at Google have a solution for familes who want to use their search engine, but who also don't want the bad stuff that sometimes makes its way into the list of results. SafeSearch is their answer, and we have it here on the MACHE web site. It is still not recommended to let your youngster do unsupervised searches, but SafeSearch eliminates the most offensive sites from the results pages, making the Internet a little safer for you and your family.
Try it today, or bookmark the MACHE site and come here first when you need to do a web search. All the great Google features work, like Google Maps, dictionary, etc.
Quick Tips:
Dictionary -- type "define:" followed by the word you wish to define.
e.g. define: fortitude
Calculator -- type an equation or conversion to see the results
e.g. the following examples from Google's calculator help page:
This news item is from Midland Association of Christian Home Educators
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(Category: Misc)
Posted by Scott (Admin)
Thursday, September 28 2006 - 12:48:29PM
Google is a powerful search engine that helps you find just about anything. The only problem is that sometimes you can accidentally find undesirable sites among
the useful ones you intended to find.The clever folks at Google have a solution for familes who want to use their search engine, but who also don't want the bad stuff that sometimes makes its way into the list of results. SafeSearch is their answer, and we have it here on the MACHE web site. It is still not recommended to let your youngster do unsupervised searches, but SafeSearch eliminates the most offensive sites from the results pages, making the Internet a little safer for you and your family.
Try it today, or bookmark the MACHE site and come here first when you need to do a web search. All the great Google features work, like Google Maps, dictionary, etc.
Quick Tips:
Dictionary -- type "define:" followed by the word you wish to define.
e.g. define: fortitude
Calculator -- type an equation or conversion to see the results
e.g. the following examples from Google's calculator help page:
This news item is from Midland Association of Christian Home Educators
( http://www.mache.cc/news.php?extend.4 )