We reached out to Kiddle for comment on this but received no response. As any adult who's used the Internet before can attest to, it's very easy to start by searching for something innocent and wind up seeing something not-so-innocent. If they are picking individual terms and phrases, they cannot possibly catch every search term that can result in explicit content. Yes, as it says the editors 'handpick' the first few results, but who those experts are or what their qualifications are isn't available on Kiddle. The issue with Kiddle is how their information is found is not clear. However, we searched the term and now when those words are searched, educational resources about the topics appear: Part of the criticism was that Kiddle was limiting young people from searching things they are genuinely curious about the terms 'transgender' and 'bisexual' were banned and would give the same error message as 'boob' would. The criteria for what qualifies a subject to banned from Kiddle is not clear, but this search bar certainly makes it more difficult for children and young teens to find explicit content or pornography. Parents can also block out certain phrases or sites themselves. The next are 'famous sites written for adults.but are harder for kids to understand' and uses the Google safe search to filter out any explicit content. The first 1-3 results are 'handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors,' the next 4-7 are sites not for children but written in appropriate and easily read language for children, also chosen by the Kiddle experts. Kiddle's ' About' page explains how it cultivates results.

Google search engine for kids