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online safety and digital citizenship specialist

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15 July 2022

The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec acknowledged today, speaking at an industry event.

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08 December 2021

In a year that continued to test many, the world searched “how to heal” more than ever. Whether they’re taking care of mental health, honoring a loved one, or reuniting with family, people are finding ways to come back stronger than before.

 

 

 

01 March 2016

'Remember “celebgate” – the widespread hack of hundreds of iCloud accounts which saw the internet flooded with intimate pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and a whole host of others?

Google certainly does. A search for celebgate returns over 360,000 results.

Take that same search term over to Kiddle – the new child friendly search engine that filters out the filth – and what do you get? Nothing. Not a single result.

That’s because Kiddle, which has a Google Custom Search bar embedded in the site, filters out all adult content.

Some search terms return no results while others, such as “spank” or “Pamela Anderson” make the cartoon robot glower from the search engine’s moon-based theme as it tells you that you tried to search for “some bad words.”'

 

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12 June 2014

This departmental advice is for:

school leaders

school staff

governing bodies

local authorities

It applies to:

maintained schools

community schools

foundation schools

voluntary schools

community special schools

foundation special schools

academies and free schools

pupil referral units

non-maintained special schools

The advice covers:

powers to search without consent

prohibited items schools can search for

powers to confiscate items found during searches

 

Read the document here.

19 June 2013