squidGuard has indeed safe search functionality by using a
regular expression substitution mechanism.
Unfortunately, the substitution has to be done for ALL Google domains.
sguidGuard also does not have safesearch examples for Yahoo, Ask.com
excite.com, MSN.com live.com etc.
With ufdbGuard an administrator only has to add 'safe-search on'
in the configuration file and SafeSearch is enabled for all Google domains
and all major search engines. The implementation does not use
regular expressions and is much faster.
Marcus
Mike Rambo wrote:
Brett Lymn wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:38:45PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
if you suppress the use of cookies for a google service, you won't get
use specifc preferences (ie the default in image search is the moderate
safesearch)... if you do it for all of google.com obviosuly it has
negative implications for things like gmail.
You can force the google image safesearch on by rewriting the URL to
add an argument to the search string. I know of one commercial
product that actually does this to try and prevent the thumbnail
viewing loophole.
squidGuard has done this unofficially (via a patch) for a couple of
years and does so now officially as of the recent 1.3 release (though by
default it is set for full safe search. I'd expect moderate safe should
be possible too).
