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Blocked Search Engines and Web Directories List

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December 22, 2000 - The Online Policy Group surveyed Internet search engines and web directories to determine which ones provide a blocking option. Here are the results.



Search Engine / Web Directory Filter Comment
AltaVista FamilyFilter '
AOL Kids Only '
eGroups FamilyFilter purchased by Yahoo
FindWhat.com Filter Preference '
Go.com GOguardian password protection, powered by Infoseek
Google SafeSearch '
Kanoodle Filter Adult Sites Blocks using checkbox on per-search basis
Lycos SearchGuard '
Raging Search FamilyFilter related to AltaVista
Yahoo! Yahooligans separate web directory designed for children

Please send any corrections or updates to research@onlinepolicy.org.

Additional Resources

For information about blocking technology, see the Blocking Technology Analysis and Blocked Access sections. For information about issues related to search engines and web directories, see the Search Engines section. For information on commercialization of search engines, see the Online Commercialism section.

Search Engines and Web Directories List
An excellent annotated list of search engines and web directories from SearchEngineWatch.

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