Search Safely

Making Your search safe

Please note: All search engines have the capability of listing unsuitable material including pornography.

While the unsuitable sites may be listed Watchdog blocks the vast majority of this material. In other words, clicking on the links will result in the “Block” page being displayed.

Many Search sites have the facility to enable a filter that stops web pages that contain explicit sexual content from appearing in search results. It is recommended that users enabled this filter, particularly as some search sites have started to included thumbnail images of the type of content the site contains.

In the case of www.google.com and www.yahoo.com , this filter is automatically turned on by Watchdog so, in general, we recommend Google for searches.

WARNING: Please note that users use Search Engines at their own risk. Watchdog is committed to blocking the unsuitable web sites that a search engine may list links to, but it’s not possible to block individual (inappropriate) material within the search engine itself.