Web Filtering of Google/Yahoo Images

[RJohnson91]

Morning all,

We are currently having a problem with the blocking of google / yahoo images.

The local category 'Images' has to be allowed otherwise it stops all images from displaying, such as the BBC website. We have denied local category 'Search Engines - Images/Video' for students, however can still access google/yahoo images.

Google doesn't display a different URL when viewing images so it is difficult to do a 'keyword' block or similar, as this would stop google all together.

Is there anyway to stop all search engine images?

Thanks

Ryan

[rad]

I raised this with them a month back. In short the answer was NO

Pm if you want further info.

[patmilton]

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[RJohnson91]

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Looks good for a home environment but what about for a school, can this be installed on a server for instance?

Ryan

[Edu-IT]

Why would you want to block image searches?

[RJohnson91]

Why would you want to block image searches?

No offence but do you really need an answer to that?

Kids aged 11-16 you figure what they would be searching for

I know the keyword block is 'good' but all it takes is one child to pick up a one single image of which is offensive to their race, or sexual in anyway, print it off and take it home

I'm sure as a parent you wouldnt want your son/daughter looking at stuff like that!

Ryan

[Edu-IT]

No offence but do you really need an answer to that?

Kids aged 11-16 you figure what they would be searching for

I know the keyword block is 'good' but all it takes is one child to pick up a one single image of which is offensive to their race, or sexual in anyway, print it off and take it home

I'm sure as a parent you wouldnt want your son/daughter looking at stuff like that!

Ryan

Oh I assumed LGFL had decent enough filtering not to show those images in searching. So.. it wasn't such a stupid question really. ;-)

In my opinion blocking the whole of Google Images is overkill. There's tons of image search sites out there, are you going to block them all? As long as they can't view images they shouldn't be able to I see no issue.

[RJohnson91]

Oh I assumed LGFL had decent enough filtering not to show those images in searching. So.. it wasn't such a stupid question really. ;-)

In my opinion blocking the whole of Google Images is overkill. There's tons of image search sites out there, are you going to block them all? As long as they can't view images they shouldn't be able to I see no issue.

Ah, I was wondering why!

Yeah their word filter is okay, but some images aren't tagged with the right tags, took me all of 5 minutes to grab an 'internesting' image!

I know you're right, blocking all image searches is impossible, however if we can block the main ones at least we have a leg to stand on if a parent comes in screaming that their kid has offensive images. The kids would have to go out of their way to get the image, where with google images you could stumble across an image.

Looks like LGFL wont block it any time soon anyway.

FYI for anyone with the same issue Google video will be open aswel!