When ever I have been using a computer in the local library I have been frustrated that the safety settings mean that I can not look at a Premier League table as it contains the word “Arsenal”, because that relate to violence, or look up “The Dubious Chymist” because “Chymist” could relate to witchcraft. But can you get round the safety settings? I wanted to know out of interest but also as a parent.

To this end I have been testing the google “SafeSearch” set to the “safest” setting, and doing image searches for different words.

What I found was quite worrying. going in the experiment I expected that “page 3” level nudity would probably get past the censors based on the logic that children could see that sort of thing in newspapers so it would be kind of acceptable.

I found that the not only could you find “page 3” (ie breast) nudity but actually full and hardcore nudity. Not only that, but entering a biologically term that children are taught in school gave hardcore sex pictures!

I started this as a bit of a laugh but I am seriously concerned. Anyway I like to keep the tone of this site up beat so I will leave you with something that did make me smile. A certain seven letter phase (which again did bring up hardcore porn) also for some bizarre reason brought up a picture of this Cambridge United player, how random is that?