Wednesday, May 24, 2006

ScanDoo Beta - Making Searching Safe

I just found this pretty cool search engine today. It doesn't replace Google, it just makes it more safe for the public.

It is called ScanDoo.

Scandoo is based on ScanSafe’s web security technology that currently scans billions of web requests for corporate employees around the world. ScanSafe software developers were often asked by their friends and family if they could protect home Internet use in the same way that they protect corporate users. When our lab came up with safe searching technology we thought it was such a good idea that we wanted to make it available to all.

When you search in Scandoo, each site is compared to the ScanSafe's database and given an icon.
  1. Green Check is safe
  2. Yellow is a warning
  3. Red is bad
  4. Black Bug is totally unsafe - known website that contains malware or evil script
Try it yourself, pretty slick idea.

This is a great idea for those people that search at work...and don't want the proxy admin at their desk ;)

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