We come today to talk to you about Kiddle, a search engine, like Google or Ecosia, for example, with the difference that the search results are exclusively for children. Despite the name and the similar style, Kiddle is not from Google, but it does use Google's safe search engine.
It is a good tool very safe, thanks to which boys and girls have access to almost any information. And this is almost the best advantage of Kiddle, because it leaves out adult, violent, or sexual content. Despite all the advantages that we will tell you, we also want to make it clear that Kiddle is not infallible and that unwanted results may appear.
What is Kiddle?
As we have told you at the beginning of this article Kiddle is a search engine designed specifically for children, therefore one of its characteristics is that it is very visual. Its interface is an animated background that simulates the lunar and robot surface. Kiddle's logo will remind you of Google's, and the colors are almost identical.
How it happens in other search engines, boys and girls, who are Kiddle users, can select the Web, Images, Kimages, News, Videos and Kpedia tabs. Most of the results appear with large photographs, a picture is better than a thousand words, so that children when viewing a photo already know where they should go.
But remember Kiddle is a tool, it does not supply the father and mother who must monitor content that your son or daughter searches on the Internet. What does free you is from embarrassing images or pages that appear "by mistake" in other search engines. When they try to search an inappropriate word or expression, the robot appears somewhat angry, warning that the search has no results.
How does Kiddle work?
The most important thing at Kiddle is safety. The web pages displayed after performing the search meet strict requirements so that children do not reach harmful information with explicit or misleading content. Kiddle displays the results as follows:
- The Top 3 results are safe sites written specifically for children. They are hand picked and reviewed by Kiddle editors.
- Among the results 4 and 7 are safe and reliable sites, but not written specifically for children. They are simple and easy to understand.
- From the eighth result they are safe sites written for adults, therefore they can be difficult for children to understand. They are made by experts.
Kiddle does not store personal information of any kindIn addition, the records are deleted every 24 hours. In this search engine, children also have as a resource their own encyclopedia called Kpedia, written in a simple and pleasant language that is easy to read, with more than 700 reference articles.
Advantages and disadvantages
Kiddle has received a lot of praise. The advantages are clear, is a search engine tailored to the smallest. It offers security and confidence to parents, and is the best way for children to access the possibilities of the Internet. And this advantage can also turn into a disadvantage as the results are excessively filtered.
But Kiddle has also had criticisms, and is that their filters are so strict that they do not allow finding certain topics as it can be: sexual education. From the portal they already explained that many times the content that derives from these words is more suitable for adults than for children. If your children need to search for content of a sexual nature in an academic way, as parents you can collaborate on their homework.
Another disadvantage of the search engine is that it does there is advertising, you can see ads, in a perfectly differentiated gray box. This does not seem to make much sense being a search engine for children. But surely, the most negative point, which can also be the most positive, depending on how you look at it, is that This search engine is entirely in English.