Safe surfing on the net for children has long been a concern for parents, making sure that children cannot accidentally visit sex or soft porn sites whilst surfing the has been a real concern, Google has been working on providing a safe surfing environment for some time with their safe surf feature, and to help ease the concern of parents they have released a feature that allows you to lock down safe surf settings.

Safe search is a feature that lets you filter sexually explicit web sites and images from your search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, SafeSearch helps you avoid content you may prefer not to see or would rather your children did not stumble across.

Available on Google now,the safe search feature lets you lock your SafeSearch setting to the Strict level of filtering. When you lock SafeSearch, two things will change. First, you’ll need to enter your password to change the setting, Second, the Google search results page will be visibly different to indicate that SafeSearch is locked: This is where Google has put it’s balls on the line, so to speak. Once you put your search on lockdown, you’ll know your results are safe because you’ll see Google’s big coloured balls.