rfgdxm1 - 8:27 pm on Apr 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

>A good majority of the parents surfing out there couldn't even tell you what "preferences" are, let alone turn on SafeSearch via them. The idea that parents should shepard their kids while on the internet is nonworkable in the real world. Most would be lucky to find the on switch on the computer.

And the same could be said for the Average Joe searcher who doesn't want censored search results. Thus the default should be uncensored. Also, I'd have to figure that any parent too clueless to alter Google preferences is also the sort of parent who would be too clueless to install NetNanny type software, or set it up. Thus, kids of these parents will easily land up on porn sites just by random surfing. Unless parents make a conscious, deliberate effort to keep their kids away from porn on the computer, then these kids will easily find it either by intentional choice on their part, or accident.