Safe Searching

Today I learned something new from Mr. Modem (www.mrmodem.com). He has a newspaper column that is most helpful in computer matters. I found out that you can set a filter in your Google searches to filter out explicit text and images. It's not guaranteed to work perfectly all the time, but hey, I'm all for trying. It's called SafeSearch, and you can enable it on your computer to give yourself another level of protection.

Open up www.google.com on your computer. Then, to the right of the search window, click "Preferences". Then, under "SafeSearch filtering", you can choose:

• Use strict filtering
• Use moderate filtering
• Do not filter my search results

Then, your preferences will be honored each time you do a google search on that computer, until you change it.

Cool! Google rocks.