Horrible google searches. Please help.

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DP left his profile on and I've just been on to find various search terms in the google history. These included "kid sex" and "kids having intercourse"

Has he definately searched for this stuff? I need to know before I confront.

'kids having' might promt a suggestion of 'intercourse' but writing 'kid' doesn't prompt a suggestion of 'sex', IYSWIM? The second of which the OP said had also appeared in google search hist., including others.

you just need to click on "preferences" which is next to the search box.
there should be an option to turn safe search on which will filter your results.

esp important if you have older children who may use the computer.

you shouldn't worry from a work pov or that people will think you ahve been searching for those terms. as I say it's an auto-suggest thing that just brings up the most used search terms
unfortunately some of those will be dodgy. but there is no implication that the user of the machine has viewed them and it would be easy to prove you hadn't

I tried this on my google and also got 'kids having intercourse' as a top result for 'kids having' and 'kid sex.com' as a second one after typing 'kid se'
Very worrying, even with safe search off (I am logged into an adult username, we have separate ones for DD's) it cna pull up these results.

This doesn't get recorded as a search you have done. They are the most commonly searched for phrases that start with what you type in. It's only a worry in terms of your kids seeing it in the auto suggestion box.

When I said that the terminology didn't sound like a paedophile I wasn't making a pop diagnosis but it doesn't hurt to look for any other rational explanation before telling the woman to call the police on her husband if she had no other reason to suspect him. And it sounds like a rational explanation has been found.

I just typed "kids having" in google and shockingly "kids having sexual intercourse" was one of the options

i just put in 'kids se'

aND it came up with 'kids sexy games'

This is quite worrying as I have safe search on strict filtering and I only have to type in "kids hav" and it comes up with kids having sexual intercourse. Really not happy I am going to turn of the suggestion thing altogether. I think google needs to be informed that this is not acceptable.

Fuck, I am really shocked, that is awful, I agree with complaing to google, there must be some kind of screening they can do.

It happens with Yahoo too!

Tried to turn off the suggestion thing but it still happens.

I dont want to click through to the search results but is it not referring to children having underage sex, i.e. sites looking at policy/prevention/case studies?? as opposed to actual images of it?

OK, so Ive just clicked through and 9 of the 10 sites are referring to sex education, as I thought. One is dodgy though.

bloody hell, I had no idea this suggestion thingie would come up with such a dodgy connection

I withdraw my previous comments re. whether the OP added up

I notice she hasn't been back though

Telling?, or just RL intruding?

I hope its not cos she has called the cops on her husband or otherwise accused him of being a paedophile

So not actually in the history then .

Am very that google offer "kids having intercourse" as something you might like to search for.

I shall contact them about it.

why shocked minty - if you want to get some help/information about underage sex to help educate your child who is at it then I would have thought that "kids having intercourse" would be rather logical - not everyone uses the word "child" as everday language.

labs.google.com/suggestfaq.html

"Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of this type of popularity information can be found in the Google Zeitgeist. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal search history. "

"We try not to suggest queries that could be offending to a large audience of users. This includes explicit porn words as well as queries that lead to porn sites, dirty words, hate and violence terms. If you are aware of queries that should not be suggested, please let us know at the Google Web Search Help group.
"

Google UK Ltd
Belgrave House
76 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20-7031-3000
Fax: +44 (0)20-7031-3001

Apparantly this is contact dtails for contacting google in UK. I personally am concerned enough to be writing even if I am going to seriously stay clear of anything dogey - I want to work with kids and can't risk anything.

Maybe this is a question for the techies but do the suggestions get stored or is it just the search results?

I do think there is a reasonable possibility that what the man was looking for was advice on sex for young people/how to make sure that underage people don;t have sex when they are not ready - if the OP has adolescent or preadolescent DC, particularly. And given what the last several posters have found about search engines, I sincerely hope that the OP hasn't kicked her H out or had him arrested, because if it was/is the case that he was looking for information then it would be a dreadful tragedy for him to be arrested as a possible child abuser because that always sticks...

OK, so we've established that it might be Google suggestions, but it you have a Google toolbar, the drop-down search box does also have it's own history where you can view all entered search terms. I assumed this is what OP was probably talking about?

OMG I cannot believe Google would suggest such things.... I am too worried to test!!

In order to prevent this from happening you'd need google to ban one or more of the words from searches. Do we want them to ban the word 'sex', the word 'kids' or the word 'having'

It's just the way it works that the words end up in order.

It's like coming up with a rude word in scrabble. It's not the fault of the game.

I typed kids having and it came up with sex and intercourse but quite far down. On mine (firefox) the sites you have clicked on come up first with a line under and the suggestions are under the line. Check that?

Bloody hell! Imagine the trouble that could have caused!

It's difficult to advise OP without knowing ages of her DC's and what her DH actually does (is he a teacher, for example, in which case is he researching for a class)
Anything other is pure speculation. There are a few legitimate reasons you might google something like this, especially phrased like that.