Filtering

[Jerry Kuntz]

Hal wrote:
> 
> Karen,
> 
> I believe that Yahooligans (http://www.yahooligans.com) and Magellan's
> Green Light sites (http://www.mckinley.com/)
> may be an example of what you are talking about.
> 
> Take a look at them.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -hal
> 
> >I was wondering if the technology and resources existed for a
> >link-compiler like Yahoo! aimed at children/youth.  I am thinking of a
> >resource which has librarians looking at the sites, giving their judgment
> >of the content, and being able to not include those sites with
> >inappropriate material (i.e. material which is illegal to provide to
> >children).  If such a search engine could be used to only search those
> >sites (like Yahoo! does), and if a browser could be modified to not allow
> >one to open a location (like Netscape's 'Open'), such a software could be
> >made available to those children whose parents want to restrict their (the
> >children's) access.  I am thinking primarily of such a system on a machine
> >in the children's section or in school libraries.
> 
> ..stuff deleted.....
> 
> Hal Kirkwood
> Information Technology Librarian
> S.U.N.Y. at Geneseo
> Geneseo, NY 14454
> 716/245-5524
> Fax: 716/245-5003
> hkirk at uno.cc.geneseo.edu
> http://137.238.9.12/~hal/hal.html
> 
> "I find that sometimes it's easy to be myself"
> "and sometimes I find that it's better to be somebody else"
>                 -Dave Matthews Band

We've pulled together all the known search engines that offer databases
of kid's sites and/or "safe" sites onto one page of input boxes:

	http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

				Jerry Kuntz
				Ramapo Catskill Library System
				jkuntz at rcls.org