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Google uses a search technique that scours the web looking for web pages that contain the words or search terms that a user has typed into the search box. Thus, sometimes it can produce search result pages that contain a bewildering, exotic, and wholly inappropriate array of web page links, images and videos. Children should be protected from such situations when they use Google. The following are steps a parent or adult can take to avoid such disconcerting situations: 1. Use Google's SafeSearch options . SafeSearch works by blocking web pages that contain explicit and sexual content from appearing in search results. To do this go to the Google home page and click on the Settings link in the bottom right-hand corner of the web page. The SafeSearch filtering option is usually the first setting on the Settings page. Check the "Turn on SafeSearch" box to activate it. According to Google, " SafeSearch can help you block inappropriate or explicit images from you...

Some web browsers have a feature that allows users to search directly from the URL address bar where you normally enter web addresses. Such browsers include  Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google  Chrome. Some of these browsers can only produce results from a particular search engine when used in this manner. For example, Firefox only produces Google results and Internet Explorer produces results from the default search engine (usually Bing). Google Chrome on the other hand, allows you to search any website or use any search engine in the above manner. When Chrome is first installed, it comes with at least three search engines: Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search. Any of them can be used directly from the address bar and Google is set as the default. As you use Chrome to visit other search engines or websites and perform searches on them, it automatically captures their search engines to your local system. Consequently, you can use any of those new search engines right...