rfgdxm1 - 9:19 pm on Apr 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

>I never understood why parents that were worried about this sort of thing would even let their kids on the internet. The internet was full of porn long before the World Wide Web. It is like telling Hustler that they need to change their content because we need to allow kids to read it.

Yep. The Internet was originally created by the US military to be able to get all communications through even in a nuclear war. It then came to largely be used by people in academia and scientists. It was by design intended not to be censored. The only way to effectively limit access to inoffensive material is to restrict access to known, safe domains. No matter how good Google might filter, this would do nothing to stop kids from landing on non-porn sites, where the webmasters had links to adult sites that were only a click away for the children. If a parent wants to keep their kids away from porn, they are idiots if they think setting Google preference to filter such results will be effective.