Type the same word in Google, and the first result is the NHS page about, yep, periods – those ones that pre-teens might want to know about. Still, words that still get the “bad” response include pussy, pansy and menstruation (although tampons are OK).Īnd type in the word “period” and the first page of results are all about time periods from history and the periodic table. It looks like some PC tweaking has gone on since Kiddle first launched, and now these words get a less contentious message: Initial reports claimed that words such as gay, lesbian and heterosexual were getting this response. “Oops, it looks like your query contained some bad words. Type in certain “unsuitable” words and you’ll get the message: On the other hand, the site’s getting some flak for words it deems “inappropriate”. So if children search for a celeb’s name – such as Kim Kardashian or Miley Cyrus – they’d get less raunchy results using Kiddle than if they’d put those names into Google.Īnd if your child typed in, say, “meow meow” – they’d get cat pages rather than information about the drug Meow Meow. In theory, Kiddle editors make sure that the search results that come up are more appropriate for children than those that might appear if they typed certain words or phrases into Google. Hmmm, it depends what you mean by “work”.

In fact, Kiddle is a separate organisation, it’s just filtering results using Google’s “safe search” mode – as well as human editors – to weed out any inappropriate (or what Kiddle deems inappropriate) search terms. Nope, sorry guys, it’s NOT a search engine created by Google.

Google search engine for kids