Google's Safe Search Filters

Over the past few months, some webmasters have complained that images on their sites were wrongly nabbed by Google Images' safe search feature. This means, of course, a significant reduction in audience size.

We'll assume the plaintiffs in this headline, for example, informs the uncultured that great tits aren't always what you think they are. Sometimes they're birds, but don't ask Google to show you. Safe search omits that one word entirely and unfiltered search brings back, well, what everybody would guess it brings back. To see the birds, you may have to go through Wikipedia.

There may be no hope of a nest of great tits (the birds, dammit) getting into Google's image index at all. But for others who have misunderstandings with Google, there are things you can try.

SearchEngineRoundtable's Barry