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February 18, 2008
Customer Concerns
Google
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear Google,
I recently typed the word "porn" into your search engine and was astonished
by the amount of material I found. More disturbing was the fact that I
could access an unlimited amount of "adult material" without having to prove
that I was an adult.
I am writing to request that you consider
the installation of a simple safeguard that will positively affect millions
of children. Our children are being exposed to vulgar, graphic and often
time’s violent images both intentionally and accidentally because you have
no safeguards in place on the Internet to protect them. We are requesting
that you require that any Internet search engines linking to adult content
websites provide password protected filtering services that would allow
parents to protect their children from accessing adult material through
Google. We are not asking that you discontinue access, only that you
provide more powerful filtering options for parents and grandparents.
Free online pornography and graphic images
are reaching millions of under age children every day. If these images were
being displayed on any other media, there would be laws to protect our
children. There are currently over 34.4 million pornographic websites at
our children’s fingertips. Many of these websites use multiple URL’s
(domain names) and simple common names to lure unsuspecting viewers. We
have many stories of families using the Internet for homework being
inadvertently launched into these sites. All of us know someone who has
been exposed to this material unintentionally.
It would help dramatically if your company could
provide parents with a search filtering tool that could be set by parents to
filter everything coming into our IP Addresses. It should be password
protected so children couldn't easily circumvent the system.
I want to thank you for your consideration, I don't
want to have to ban my children from using your search engine. I feel there is a
much more creative solution that can be implemented from your end, I know
you have many highly talented engineers on staff.
Sincerely,
Mr. Bob Johnson
55th Ave S.
Somewhere, State – 55555
youremail@yourisp.com
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Most major search engines and portals make money selling
advertising for Adult Content. They should share the burden of protecting our children.
Google has the ability to track and rank billions of web pages, they should
apply equal technological savvy to banning sites from their listings that don't
protect minors. If a site does not have proper protection to keep
minors away from adult content, they should not be listed. 
