Google has switched on a new setting that blurs explicit imagery by default in Search results. The feature is part of Google’s SafeSearch settings, which are designed to prevent people from ...

Google has changed the default behavior of their image search to work similarly to how web search works. Now when you search for less explicit search terms while in image search, Google is more likely ...

Google has changed how their Google Images SafeSearch filter work. Now by default, Google will take the stricter approach to filtering explicit images for showing up in the image results. Now, the ...

Google will start blurring explicit images by default on Google Search for those who don’t already have the SafeSearch filter on. The purpose is to prevent users from inadvertently encountering ...

Google announced today that it will enable a new SafeSearch blurring setting by default for all users in the coming months. The filter is designed to help people protect themselves and their families ...

Google has a search preference that allows a searcher to define how strict the adult filter should be. It is called Safe Search and I think it was originally designed by Matt Cutts. In any event, I am ...

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has a problem with surfacing results that are blatantly offensive, uniformly exploitative towards women and girls, and full-on racist. And that’s before you even turn ...

The screenshot below shows a comparison of Google searches for playboy using an ordinary Google search with all filtering disabled (left pane) versus using SafeSearch in its intermediate mode ("filter ...