Babysitters: Don't Search For Young Babysitter On Google

Dec 14, 2011 • 8:41 am | comments (15) by | Filed Under Google Search Engine
 

Baby Approved on Google?A complaint arose from the Google Web Search Help forum that the results for babysitters learning about babysitting in Google is outright dangerous.

The complaint comes from a person from the Babysitting Magazine, a resource for babysitters.

She said that when you search for [young babysitter] or other keywords like it, the majority of the results, like 90% are links to pornographic and adult oriented sites.

I took a look, although I did not click through, I labeled the obvious pornographic sites with XXX. I am not sure if the ones I did not label led to adult related content or not, they may have:

young babysitter on Google

I assume most people searching for [young babysitter] is looking for porn. But that new babysitter looking for tips on how to be a young babysitter may find herself getting tips about other professions.

Google to blame?

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Image credit to ShutterStock for baby approved graphic.

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