i just tried searching porn...i had to turn the filter off completely

Any kid who wants to find porn can find it, through the library, friend's magazines, or other methods. @crzypuppy, your kid searched the term, what do you think is going to come up, it is your sons fault and the people who produced the website. Porn isn't going to kill a kid, or the family, as long as they're not going around mimicking it, and they know what's normal (such as the other guy said), then they'll turn out fine. If a guy wants to have sex with a chick, he'll do it, he'll know how to do it, and so will the girl.

Its a search engine, what do you think your going to get when you type in something inappropriate? And to the person who said porn is very destructive, I was exposed to it when I was 12, as I was searching for pictures for a project at school. I simply shrugged at the pictures, and went on in life without really caring about it. Never told my parents or anyone, and I turned out alright. I have a strong sense of maturity in my opinion compared to other kids, and even without porn, any kids going through/gone through puberty are going to think of sex even if they haven't seen porn at all. If your teens are smart enough, they aren't going to go out and copy exactly what they seen in porn because they know what can happen (STD's and such). They will probably enjoy what they see, yes, but that doesn't mean they can't grow up normally. As long as you parents distinguish what is healthy to do and what is not, (Pro tip, Masturbation is in fact natural and healthy for men, and has no negative health effects) then your teens will most likely agree with you and obey you, unless you talk to them like this: "PORN IS EVIL! YOUR GOING TO GROW UP BEING A RAPIST IF YOU LOOK AT NAKED GIRLS!", if you talk to them like that, then they are guaranteed to rebel against you, even if they don't make it noticeable to you. How do I know this? Well, my mom is a overprotective christian based parent, and my Dad is more respective of my age and maturity (Heck, he actually knocks on my door when its closed, but my mom just bursts in the room even if I'm changing). I respect, look up to, and obey my father for this much more than I do my Mom because of this. Despite what I've seen on the internet, I am a completely healthy 16 year old who has good friends, a good school record, and absolutely no intention to attack anyone in any way. I'm sure some religious people would be absolutely appalled that I would be normal after seeing what they think is "evil", but I am. Heck, I've donated to a christian program at my school to held stop AIDS in Africa, and also helped a group of people training guide dogs for the disabled.

Ugh, another horrible product by microsoft. It's just a giant ad for microsoft products. If you searched for "linux" the recommendations are:

linux windows
linux vista
linux microsoft

Absolutely horrible.

Just use google.

I think the best way to broadly filter is to use opendns.com -- it's free and it doesn't matter what browser or search engine or anything is used.

On my kids' (elementary age) computers I use a combination of the opendns name servers, firefox with adblock plus, and mcafee site advisor. They understand that mcafee site advisor is *helping* them, especially after a teacher recommended a site for free wallpaper that also spread viruses. And I like the fact that it expresses trust in them to use good judgment, not just draconian blocking. I'm not trying to thwart them so much as prevent them from accidental exposure, which is why I think addblock is an essential component.

Google search is set to "strict" but I don't have much faith in that.

Blaming the Internet or a search engine for providing a platform to hateful or offensive content is like blaming paper for 'Mein Kampf.'

HAHAHA I was thinking the same thing.
"I did a search on 'sexually explicit material', and, shockingly, that is what came up on my screen!"

"I did a search on "porn" and was shocked at the results."

That made me laugh hysterically for 5 mintues.
What do you expect to see when you search for that?
Unicorns jumping over rainbows?
If you search for something, it'll show it to you.
Is that so hard to understand?

@awesomeuser Your remarks about a 10 year old boy being perverted are way off target. Children are not inherently sexual until AFTER PUBERTY (which you have recently emerged from). The only time a child is sexual is when they have been forced into it by a grownup. Children frequently find humour in body parts--it is NOT sexual, it is a natural stage in learning about their bodies.

My 5 year old daughter was doing a mini project on community workers. I typed in "police at work" and we suddenly faced a number of naked women astride police officers. This is not a perverted 5 year old's mind, this is common-sense usage of words being distorted by the manufacturers of pornography, all in hopes getting more people to buy their wares. ALL SEARCH engines are going to find these images despite filtering, the only solution is to adopt more stringent guidelines for the pornographers themselves.
And as for me and my kids, I am teaching them that pornography is dmanaging to both the people in the photos and to those looking at them.
I don't expect any search engine to filter this out more than they already do. After all, don't pornographers pay a lot of tax to the governments that are supposed to govern them?

@crzypuppy: Your son is at fault. I cannot make it clearer.

Your. Son. Typed. In. The. Words. To. Search.

If your son types in "boobies", what do you think he is going to get pictures and videos of? BOOBIES. That is not the search engines fault, it is not the governments fault, it is not the companies fault. It is your son's fault, because HE. SEARCHED. FOR. IT. The search engine is not telling your son to look up porno, HE IS WILLINGLY CHOOSING TO.

You shouldn't need the website to parent your kids, YOU SHOULD be parenting your kids. If YOU don't want your kids to see porn, don't let them use the computer without your supervision, because, guess what, your kid is going to look it up if he wants to.

YOU are a flawless filter. If YOU are watching your child and making sure he is not looking up porn, guess what? He won't see porn. Simple. Parent your own kid, don't rely on others to do it for you.

ps. I never said I watch porn, I simply said that it is my right to watch porn if I want to. The government should not tell me what I can and cannot watch because parents like you want to blame everything but themselves for their child's problems.

to the 19 yr old contributor: congratulations! You can watch all porn that you like. I am not saying that the gov't should regulate porn. The gov't should have stricter regulations on search engines, such as bing, so that parents can properly filter what their children are seeing.

if my young child in types in words because he is naturally curious, he is NOT at fault for being shown graphic images. It is the search engines' fault because appropriate filters have not been provided to parents. The gov't should step in to make sure that the search engines meet a higher standard for setting filters.

unfortunately, i think that the gov't is too busy monitoring what you & I are doing to actually take any action where it matters.

ps. if you are the one watching porn, why are you calling my son a pervert?

Anyone *can* find the information they're looking for. This is a fact of life in today's society, and any attempts to keep people away from the information they want are futile.

But if you show your children that you respect them as human beings with a sense of morality, and make them understand why pornography is immoral, they won't *want* it, and they can exercise the self-control they'll need for the rest of their lives, keeping themselves on the right track at the same time.

Treating teenagers like toddlers with no concept of right and wrong and no self-control shows them an absence of respect and trust that's only going to make them resent you and circumvent your efforts to control them. I've heard the argument that parents shouldn't have be friends, but a mutual respect is the only reliable way to keep a child from doing things you don't want them to. Authoritarianism *does not* work.

These are the observations of a 14-year-old. I've seen what I've just said here in action far too often.

Please don't motivate your children to walk the path of evil by behaving as if you could actually stop them. Motivate them not to by making them understand it.

to the first childless adult contributor: if you had kids, would you buy your kids porn magazines?

i think we should go back to the middle ages ... remember when we actually had to go the library to do projects and reports? Now that schools are assigning projects to complete using the internet, things are a lot more difficult. Porn should not be a part of the curriculum.

it is not ok to raise kids on porn!!!!!!!!!! Porn should not be accessible so easily to children. The internet was itself created in order to access porn more easily. Kids should not be on it.

kids should not have their own computers and parents need to be around when they are on the internet.
besides bing, all of the search engines will pop out unsavory images. If my 10 yr old son is goofing off and types in butt or breast he will be seeing a lot more than I would want him to. If my 8 yr old daughter types in the name of a disney princess, she'll also be seeing quite a bit.

it is not acceptable that kids have access to porn so easily. Search engines will do anything to make a buck. The filters don't work! We have to turn off the filters when they are working on school projects to get any research done.

the gov't needs to step in immediately to protect our children. The internet should be regulated because our children should not be raised on porn!

The previous two posters scare me. Porn is very destructive and the moron above with no kids: lets hope you keep it that way until you wise up. Porn debases women, men and God ordained sexuality and relationships (marriage). There is nothing good at all about porn unless you consider evil good. The parent who does everything within their power to protect their kids from porn is wise. Porn harms adult thinking on healthy sexuality so how much more so the newly forming thinking of a child. I was exposed to porn when I was a pre-teen and it has negatively impacted my life ever since. I can believe what a moron the previous poster is. Being a parent is all abour micromanaging what kids do so when they become adults they can thrive and not be micromanaged by a therapist, drugs or prison. Wise up people.

The best part of this is, no matter how in control you think you are as an adult and no matter how hard you try to set the filters, any kid can use google and find step-by-step instructions on turning off every single filter you set. Your child, no matter how much smarter you think you are as an adult, will beat you at computers and how to work them.

Set all the filters you want - any kid over the age of 12 can figure out how to disable them.

Also, as for Bing not having good filtering options? Blame your kid, not the website. The website isn't making your kid look at porn - your child is CHOOSING to search for and view porn. Don't want your child to see porn? Tell the little pervert to stop searching for it.

The website shouldn't be doing your job as a parent - YOU should be parenting your kids, not Bing.