Comments on: It’s a Google Thang, Baby Pt. 2

By: Malreaux

Malreaux — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:54:34 +0000

To sum it up shortly: LOLWUT. Har. Har. STFU Dana.

Seriously, what does this article, Google and kids have to do anything with each other.

Sure, it should be all-age user-friendly, but half the snot-faced brats I come across couldn’t use Google to learn how to whipe their asses unless you tell ‘m step-by-step how to use it.

Hell, what sensible parent lets their 13- kids on the net?
And what sensible parent doesn’t monitor their kids behind the net?

Sure, privacy is one thing, but you’d be surprised how dumb kids can be, unless it might work in their favour of looking cool/popular TeH HaXx0R.

BTW: Copypasta-ing content from websites isn’t allowed. Copyright and all, y’know <3

By: John Erianne

John Erianne — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:21:37 +0000

Well, no… I don’t have children of my own. But I do have a niece I’m quite fond of and she’s actually used my computer from time to time to do her homework. Also, I’ve worked as an educator in the past, so I’m not completely inexperienced when it comes to kids and their Google habits and what I know about them is that the vast majority of them are better at “searching for Y” on Google than many adults.

Consistency? Huh? Here’s a thought: don’t waste your time with keyword suggestion tools — those tools are for chimps. My advice: If you don’t know how to ask for “Y” ask a librarian. Never fails.

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:00:14 +0000

Hi John. After reading your post I have to say that I assume you don’t have any children.
I know for certain that children are researching Google for their homework (those that still do homework) and not all of them “know how to ask for “Y” “. This is the reason for the adults filter in the image search results, and as more and more people will use the google suggest tool consistency in the search results will have to improve, and fast.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:16:00 +0000

Hi John. Actually my main issue was that Google was being inconsistent. If something was consistent in 3 of it’s indexes (iamges, blogs and groups) then why not in the main web one. You should be able to apply one standard across the indexes. The reason Google will not give porn results in it’s web search is that it wants to know you’re really looking for porn. The algorithm is very good and mature in that respect. Even more than that, Google wants to keep the web results vanilla (or else why would would they give you adults filters in images and not have them in the web index). That being said, the image search is in diapers and so are most of the other indexes. Google needs to step up the algorithm work on the rest of its indexes is all. The only problem with that I guess is that if porn didn’t dominate image search, I don’t think people would use Google images (and Google knows that porn is major player in image search), they’d probably use MSN image search which is so much ahead.