Time to face the strange changes...

Hello all,

Starting today, and over the next couple of days, I will be migrating the Edusafe.us Whole Web Safe Search page to a new search provider. Please forgive any interruptions that may occur.

The biggest impact that this change will have is for those of you who have downloaded the edusafe toolbars or installed the search widgets on your own sites. You will find that when the change takes place, search requests from those items will redirect to the new site, where you will have to perform the search again. Updated widgets and toolbars will be made available as soon as I can get to it.

The new whole web safe search engine is set to safe search, but I have added an additional level of control that was not available before. Keyword blocking. This powerful feature gives me the ability to block search requests based on the search term entered into the form. For instance, if the word "porn" is a blocked keyword (which it is), and someone types it into the search form, it is automatically ignored. So if someone typed "wild porn" into the search form, only the word "wild" is searched! Cool right?!

Now, I have a lot of keywords blocked, but if you discover a keyword or keyphrase that you think needs to be added to the list, please go to my contact page and e-mail. I'll evaluate the impact and add it to the list if it makes sense to do so.

Well, that's enough for now.. Please note that parts of the edusafe.us web site will not reflect the changes and will have old information for a while. But we are working as fast as we can!

As for the K-12 Teacher - Student Safe Search Engine, it will remain the same for a little while, but I may be changing the implementation a bit, soon. It seems that most of you prefer the "Whole Web" search as opposed to the more restirctive 'Educational sites only" search engine, anyways, so I'm not in a big hurry..

Thanks,

Wayne